Solastalgia: Permanent Landscape Permanent Landscape is an experimental, fragmented nature film,
motivated by a desire to compose an alternative to popular narratives around the specter of climate change.
Deferring a singular narrative, a collaged voice-over navigates desire, anxiety, concepts of nature, and attempts
to imagine a future society over a montage of insects, bodies, real and simulated landscapes.
This film is composed from footage that I shot in the mid-west;
found footage sourced from nature simulation videos, and a closely shot observation
of pesticide bee colony disruption.
This video is the first in a five-part cycle based on the five stages of grief observed by Psychiatrist Elizabeth Kübler-Ross in her work with terminally ill patients. Solastalgia: Permanent Landscape is composed from footage that I shot in the mid-west; found footage sourced from nature simulation videos, and a closely shot observation of pesticide bee colony disruption.