Possession
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Shot in the open coal mines of the Ruhrgebiet in western Germany, its surrounding torn down ghost villages and mountainous slagheaps, as well as subterranean karst caves in eastern Slovakia, Possession joins contemporary panoramas, fictional narratives and analogue special effects.
A young woman works as hand-pollinator at a fruit farm, a scenario that has already arrived in the world in the face of mass extinction of insects, yet is still unevenly distributed. Somewhere on the way to work, which is in close proximity to the still operating coal mines, she catches an environmental disease - a microbody, which is ingested and after brief adjustion symptoms enables the growth of new sensoriums, attuned to the environment.
Contemporary existing landscapes inscribed with unprecedented human activity, which and have shaped western economy as it is today as much as they have been shaped by profit-oriented extraction, become sites where logics and thought patterns of extractive politics, possessive enclosures and our notion of energy can be questioned and assembled anew.
Fossil fuels, substances which have no value to the capitalocene until they‘re burned, are cast as poetically energized materials, an incredibly dense complex of former organisms and ecosystems that can be resurrected.
Possession. An underground panorama, Maximiliansforum, Munich, DE © Milena Wojhan
Possession. An underground panorama, Maximiliansforum, Munich, DE © Milena Wojhan
Possession. An underground panorama, Maximiliansforum, Munich, DE © Milena Wojhan
with Johanna Käthe Michel
Fredi de Graft
Gesche Witte
DOP Mathias Reitz Zausinger
Aerial DOP Thomás da Silva
soundtrack Georg Paul
editing Laura Leppert
sound Florian Purschke
lighting Thomás da Silva
sets & props Laura Leppert
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