A deeply moving work that renders memory and erasure palpable. Voiced recollections and dynamic visual flourishes twine personal experiences with technologies of extraction and ongoing geopolitical shifts. On-screen text is mixed with creative code, jolting and morphing. Images, too, shift between abstraction and points of emphasis. The film variously pries into the pixels of a historic photograph or inscribes emotions and stories onto digital landscapes, upturning the surveillance aesthetic of Google Street View. Gently and astutely, the work queries notions of landscape and control, exile, and the possibility and impossibility of return. It embraces the pain of past struggles and a renewed momentum for liberation through a poetic call to invent and imagine, collectively, “something irresistible”, beyond weapons and material forces. (Ilinca Vânău)
