looking for kinship with the desert. site-specific research, shortfilm, mojave-desert, california, 2022

all possible futures

this work is a speculative poetic research on sonic and somatic interrelatedness between plants and humans. the working group, four dancers, three musicians, three filmmakers, the producer and the director did live and work together for a week on a remote land in the mojave desert in southern california. we experimented with a recording technique known as “holobiontism”, which allows to record the electronic impulses of plants. the same technique was used for recording the electronical impulses of the dancers. we meditated with the plants surrouding us and developed movement-material that embodied the connection made. after a few days we started filming the findings, ending in a splitscreen mood video and a shortfilm.

The Mojave desert is known for a long history of attracting all sorts of believers, outlaws and new-age enthusiasts. All possible futures exists in that lineage, looking for new planetary narratives and futurities.

Credits / Working group:

Performer: Joao Dorey, Lena Martin, Mak Thornquest, Keilan Staff Camera: Irene Gil Ramon
Camera Assistants: Cody Schneider, Lawrence Haymes
Soundconcept: Maddi Baird
Live-sound: Tyler Harper, Kevin Terrell Madison
Production: Tete Hoffmann
Concept + Director: Kim Dall‘Armi