2023 | Australia | Experimental,Archival,Medium-length,Short

Wheatbelt Anticipatory Archive I

  • 8 mins
  • Director | Perdita Phillips
  • Writer | Perdita Phillips
  • Producer | Perdita Phillips

STATUS: Released

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What happens if an archive is for the future and not just the past? What happens if it speaks forwards as well as backwards — and for the more-than-human? Uncertainty about truth and orientation is at the core of unsettling the present. Made from a found box of black and white oblique aerial photos, a thousand portraits of homes from the golden age of the Wheatbelt are partnered with animals on the edge of extinction, paleaorivers and salt lakes, and landscapes of recovery. With its insistent rhythm, this artwork is driven to count the toll, not just of the past, but for what might yet be possible.

saltlake clearing aerial photos ground truth colonialism land clearing Australia Wheatbelt
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