FAREWELL RECORDING FOR AN OBSERVER OF AN UNKNOWN TIME AND PLACE
Rita Macedo

Part speculative history of the future, part world-building rendering, Farewell recording for an observer of an unknown time and place is an essayistic digression on capitalism, environment, technology, and death. Central to the work is the Invasive Landscape Phenomenon, a mysterious, fast-spreading malady reminiscent of the dissociative trauma response, emerging in a world on the verge of ecological collapse, where mediated experience replaces physical presence. The omnipresent voice of a narrator weaves the layers of the film’s reality, where wetlands fold in the outside world’s complex histories of destruction, displacement and dispossession, while notions of loss, trauma, and placelessness intertwine with environmental collapse narratives.