Flatnesses

Cinema & Install Info

An ongoing two channel video shot in a strict 90 degree view where two lovers search for each other across the landscapes of the world.

Statement

Imagine you are falling.
But there is no ground.
while you are falling, you will probably feel as if you are floating – or not even moving at all. Whole societies around you may be falling just as you are.
Hito Steryl, In Free Fall, A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective

We watch as two lovers search for each other, in a landscape without depth. What happens when we lose the horizon? Without it, our sense of balance, direction, and orientation dissolves. The horizon has long anchored us, separating sky from earth, grounding perception, and reminding us of our humanity—rooted, finite, and connected to the dirt beneath our feet.

Flatnesses is a film shot entirely from a strict bird’s-eye view (God’s-eye view)—an unbroken aerial perspective, 90 degrees overhead, flattening all depth and distance. Once impossible, now cheap. Our era of drones, surveillance, satellites, and digital mapping, flattens and abstracts. Now we float. In the flatnesses, homelands become maps, geographical features become data, one place is made to seem like another, algorithms dictate desire, and intimacy feels distant. Still, we look for one another.