BRAIDED SAND
What if the rock could be a lens? And if it’s not a question of if but when?
Braided Sand engages the geologic materiality of imaging and communication technologies. There is no glass lens without ancient sand, itself the result of hundreds of millions of years of geologic activity. How do we understand this deep geologic time alongside notions such as photography’s “decisive moment” or the speed of information transported by the fiber optic cable networks that are the keystone of the internet. Filmed at a sand mine, a glass factory, and a nanotech laboratory, Braided Sands moves between observation and abstraction, juxtaposing human and geologic timescales, plunging viewers into churning industrial environments to lay bare the weighty earthly bases of seemingly invisible and immaterial infrastructures.
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