losing touch

Searching for life in daily rituals, Losing Touch undertakes a shift in perception and presents the city as an ugly yet ecologically rich landscape.

July 2024 ; 9:58

The film depicts the internal dialogue on coping with the grief and fear of ecological degradation, using the local streets of Berlin as a means to materialise and confront these emotions. As both the body and mind begin to wander, encounters with the landscape over a 24 hour period are transformed into an overstimulating and emotionally charged journey. Varied media create sensational and playful depictions of the surroundings, entangling creatures of metal and flesh through image and sound, both within and between the frames. Subverting the nature-culture dichotomy, a new image of nature is formed, not only as a romantic, distant place, but rather a dirty, omnipresent force.

Against the fast current of the city, nature is brought closer to home and diminishes the distance between self and land. Reaching out to what remains, comfort can be found amongst what has been lost.

Made with camcorder footage, cyanotype, rubbings, 35mm photography and super 8 film, both developed using coffee and beer.