What if the rock could be a lens? And if it’s not a question of if, but when? Braided Sand considers the geologic materiality of imaging and communication technologies. There is no glass lens without sand, which itself is the result of millions of years of geologic activity. Filmed at a sand mine, a glass factory and a nanotech laboratory, Braided Sand moves between observation and abstraction, juxtaposing human and geologic timescales, plunging the viewer into churning industrial environments to lay bare the weighty earthly bases of seemingly invisible and immaterial infrastructures.