Earth, Water, Sun and Wind, 2023

 

Filmed while traveling south through Morocco and Western Sahara, Earth, Water, Sun and Wind follows a landscape shaped by occupation, extraction, and political erasure. Moving between Casablanca, Tarfaya, Laayoune, Dakhla, and Guerguerat, the work traces a continuous line in which occupation no longer appears as rupture, but as something absorbed into the everyday order of the territory. Roads, desert, coastline, wind turbines, and the infrastructures of everyday life enter the same visual field, while checkpoints and controlled routes structure how the territory can be crossed. Through split-screen movement and the words of an anonymous Sahrawi speaker, the film stays with the difficulty of reading a place where occupation has been made to appear ordinary.

 

 

18 min 00 sec

2-channel video installation

HD video, color, sound

 

Co-Editor: Jasmina Metwaly

Color and Sound: Tristan Daniel Nicolas

Subtitles and Proofreading: Lilo Meier

Language: English

Locations: Casablanca, Marrakech, Tarfaya, Laayoune, Dakhla, Guerguerat