Adiós,
In the last decades, as the undeniable effects of climate change have become perceptible to all, contemporary technologies have created a new salvation myth for humans. But as a tropical glacier melts in the mountains of Colombia and the machinery designed to guard it fails, are we [humans] just spectators of our own catastrophe?
Adiós, is a short film that uses cinema techniques (imagery, sound, and narrative) to understand how affect manifests in a time of ecological collapse. By using archival footage, staged ice melts, and documented processes to replicate the glacier, the piece explores the paradoxes created by the separation of humans and nature in Western cosmologies. The film renders the melting glacier as an object of study, to be observed, mapped, modeled, and sound recorded in a failed attempt to prevent its imminent loss. The film becomes the medium that allows the sequence and combination of images and sounds to create a feeling of affect in the viewer.
Adiós, is a short film that uses cinema techniques (imagery, sound, and narrative) to understand how affect manifests in a time of ecological collapse. By using archival footage, staged ice melts, and documented processes to replicate the glacier, the piece explores the paradoxes created by the separation of humans and nature in Western cosmologies. The film renders the melting glacier as an object of study, to be observed, mapped, modeled, and sound recorded in a failed attempt to prevent its imminent loss. The film becomes the medium that allows the sequence and combination of images and sounds to create a feeling of affect in the viewer.
