2024 | United States | Documentary,Experimental

Landforms (2024)

  • - - 12 mins
  • Director | Laura Kraning
  • Writer | -
  • Producer | Laura Kraning

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LANDFORMS unearths the physical remains of past and future geological strata. The film explores two landscapes, an industrial rock quarry turned recreational fossil hunting park, in which 380-million-year-old fossils were discovered beneath the rocks where once flowed a shallow sea, and a public waterway whose shore is dispersed with brightly colored fragments of consumer waste in the form of microplastics. Both landscapes reveal a process of digging and gathering, of collecting evidence of earth’s pre-historic past, or intervening in humanity’s toxic futures. The forms, of ancient sea creatures and broken plastic, mesh and intertwine into a meditation on deep time and a reflection on extinction.

physical future geological fossil rock shallow sea fragment microplastic earth ancient sea creatures
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