all this distance
two channel 4k film, 10. min, 15 sec.
all this distance (2025) is a poetic meditation on how infrastructure and slow environmental violence have shaped our contemporary conditions of closeness and distance. Featuring sites that are often out-of-sight to the public, such as a deep sea cables, the film highlights the materiality of our hyperconnected world. Through a series of rhythmic landscape images, ‘all this distance’ tends to the elemental and atmospheric, drawing out our need for control and order in different types of measuring and scientific apparatus.
Two faded lovers address each other through poetic letters that entangle romance and connection with the fraught conditions of pollution and grief that come with ecological devastation. Footage was taken during fieldwork by the artist in the Netherlands and the UK including of meteorological, hydraulic engineering and deep sea cables sites; namely Waterloopbos in Marknesse, a Tenet undersea cable construction site in Wijk aan Zee, Cabauw tower (atmospheric remote sensing site) near Utrecht and a beach in Orkney, Scotland.
