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, Marrakech, Tarfaya, Laayoune, Dakhla, and Guerguerat, the work traces a continuous line in which takeover no longer appears as rupture, but as something absorbed into the territory itself. The southward journey does not stop to mark the boundary where occupation begins; it moves through the space of its normalization. Through split-screen movement, images of desert, water, sun, and wind turbines, and the words of an anonymous speaker, the video stays with a place where control has settled so deeply into the visible order of things that the distinction between occupation and the land itself is no longer clearly legible.

 

 

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