Acrimonia (2019)
HD digital video projection, Sound, 28 min 30 sec, looped
Acrimonia, is shot in Westland, a region in The Netherlands with the largest concentration of high-tech greenhouses in Europe. Understanding the greenhouse as a cinematic device —a quasi-film set where light, movement and sound are regulating production— the film looks at how certain technologies of the moving image are being implemented in order to increase productivity, reduce human failure and stretch production processes around the clock. Conceived as a fable where non-human entities become protagonists, we are invited to transit across the sonic and kinetic space of an assembly line towards an oneiric space of animality and plant-being.
Solar Foods Oy, Replica Ltd (2019)
HD digital video on monitor, Sound, 20 min, looped
Solar Foods Oy, Replica Ltd, revolves around the making of plastic food at the workshops of Replica, one of the few UK based companies that still manufactures props for food displays, advertisement and the film industry —among others. The perception of food, its appealingness and attractiveness through a constructed image, comes into play when observing this hand-crafted manufacturing processes through a camera. A phone conversation with the Finish start-up Solar Foods introduces us to a cutting edge technology consisting of the production of solein, a new protein generated from water, electricity and CO2 captured from the air. If in the first film we were looking at the acceleration of agricultural practices through automation, here we are faced with a technology that aims to replace those practices, suggesting a near future after “the end of agriculture".
Gerard Ortin Castellvi 2019
HD digital video projection, Sound, 28 min 30 sec, looped
Acrimonia, is shot in Westland, a region in The Netherlands with the largest concentration of high-tech greenhouses in Europe. Understanding the greenhouse as a cinematic device —a quasi-film set where light, movement and sound are regulating production— the film looks at how certain technologies of the moving image are being implemented in order to increase productivity, reduce human failure and stretch production processes around the clock. Conceived as a fable where non-human entities become protagonists, we are invited to transit across the sonic and kinetic space of an assembly line towards an oneiric space of animality and plant-being.
Solar Foods Oy, Replica Ltd (2019)
HD digital video on monitor, Sound, 20 min, looped
Solar Foods Oy, Replica Ltd, revolves around the making of plastic food at the workshops of Replica, one of the few UK based companies that still manufactures props for food displays, advertisement and the film industry —among others. The perception of food, its appealingness and attractiveness through a constructed image, comes into play when observing this hand-crafted manufacturing processes through a camera. A phone conversation with the Finish start-up Solar Foods introduces us to a cutting edge technology consisting of the production of solein, a new protein generated from water, electricity and CO2 captured from the air. If in the first film we were looking at the acceleration of agricultural practices through automation, here we are faced with a technology that aims to replace those practices, suggesting a near future after “the end of agriculture".
Gerard Ortin Castellvi 2019
Goldsmiths
Postgraduate Exhibition
MA Artists' Film
& Moving Image
19-23 July 2019
Small Pool
Laurie Grove Baths
6 Laurie Grove
London SE14 6NH
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