»Wasser, bitte! Wasser!«
»The skin is swelling creating an own reservoir of bodily fluid underneath.
Hot as the water, stingy as a bite creating uncomfort. […] everything is about water,
watery bodies, fluids and humans in the midst of it.«
Fluid Frictions
Video Essay
The life-giving, political, economic components of our »animated waters« (Vernadsky 1933, Margulis 1990) exemplify a pressing melancholy of our position as human species. Spatially and temporally: as holobionts, as fluid beings, in our own bodies, in urban habitats, in the ecosystem and in the Anthropocene.
This work draws from a stay at the river Schwärze and the bodily encounters occurring during this stay, which reflect the fluidity of water. Along the lifeline and contact zone between the forests of Brandenburg and the city of Berlin, the film immerses in wet ontologies (Gaard 2001, Steinberg & Peters 2015, Neimanis 2016) of multiple phenomena. Capturing the essence and pains through analogue photoprocesses, hydrotests, creative writing and filmmaking.