How on Earth presents: Earthbound

Can we separate what we see from ourselves and the conditions under which we do it? It seems unlikely or impossible, and yet, in a darkened theatre moving images can make us “mechanically ascent” from the spectacle on the screen, making us detached from earthbound senses and conditions.

In this talk, Sjoerd van Oevelen and Elodie Hiryczuk will discuss how they deal with the ways in which the power of seeing is constructed, and how they seek to forge a world through moving images. What matters the most in our encounter with an image is not so much what an image represents, rather what emerges in our present encounter with them. Pivotal to their talk is the work of filmmaker, writer and editor Erin Espelie, whose experimental documentary The Lanthanide Series will be screened afterwards.

The Lanthanide Series
2014, 70 minutes, Color, Sound, HD digital video & 16mm film mastered to DCP

From the portals of personal computing devices to ancient obsidian mirrors, optical instruments control how people see, foresee, frame, record, and remember their lives. The Lanthanide Series meditates on how we understand the world through such material means, with a reliance on history, the Periodic Table, and the people we love.