AND WE HAVE BECOME THE PRESENT​

2027

 

Investigating the tension of isolation in technology's sonic vacuums, this experimental film grounds itself in George Oppen's 1965 poem "Leviathan" and the intersection of human and plant intelligences: The consequence of turning away from one another when there is no separation from earth, sky, and our ascension forward (or backwards).

LEVIATHAN

Even the verse begins to eat away

In the acid. Pursuit, pursuit;

 

A wind moves a little,

Moving in a circle, very cold.

 

How shall we say?

In ordinary discourse—

 

We must talk now. I am no longer sure of the words,

The clockwork of the world. What is inexplicable

 

Is the ‘preponderance of objects.’ The sky lights

Daily with that predominance

 

And we have become the present.

 

We must talk now. Fear

Is fear. But we abandon one another