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Can I See Through You - Anouk

We want to share with you the artwork of Nouk, our dry land assistant, that she made during her stay on the project and how, from her perspective of living in a community, the activities she did daily and the knowledge gave her more tools to make us more aware of nature and the importance of La Poza that has so much meaning for Sunseed. The name of the piece, ‘Can I See Through You’, signifies the question that guided me through this process. The ‘You’ in the title is referring to all the nonhuman elements in the environment you can imagine, think of the ants, the gypsum, the clouds (or the lack of them), the trees and even the spirits. You might wonder why putting all this effort in empathizing with rocks and insects and trying to capture their perspective is of any value. In the end the video that I made consists of vague images and dubious sounds without a clear message to take away from it. Nevertheless, I think there is real value in expanding and disorienting our human perspective. One of the root causes of why we are facing a multifaced climate crisis, is fundamentally that at some point in history we have come to see ourselves as something separate from and even superior to the rest of nature. Most filmmaking methods represent this anthropocentric approach. When the climate crisis is portrayed in film, it is often done with the use of dramatic storylines, a narrator whom we can sympathize with and some experts who present some factual information. Moving away from this human perspective and using other filmmaking methods that focus on imagining what life must be like from the more-than-human perspective, gives us the chance to attune to nonhuman lifeworld’s. This opens up our understanding to the rather slow form of violence that is induced by destructive human activities. The damage that is being done to our planet is a slow kind of violence because much of it occurs indirectly, gradually and out of sight. The video is meant to be projected on the rocks next to the poza, partially in order to connect the recorded footage with the present moment, but especially for the purpose of enhancing the sense of disorientation of our human perspective on this world. It might bother you to not exactly understand what you are seeing, or you might get curious about what the video actually looks like, but this confusion or discomfort is entirely the purpose of the experience. I believe that film is capable of producing knowledge, not just representing it. So with this video I’m not so much putting forward a certain vision or idea. The aim is to create an experience, in which you can make your own interpretations, come up with your own questions and draw your own conclusions.