UPRIVER
a moving image landscape in the rhythm of the digital.
Digital video, 30min loop, steal frame, AV player, monitor. 2015
A secluded scenery in the mountains of Albania, a mythical, unknown land. No road cuts through nature, the river alone crosses the country connecting remote and widely separated villages. Without any sign of human life along the riverside, the camera flows with the waters through a scenery that hardly changes. The sunlight, at play with the surfaces it touches, bursts into digital refractions that dissolve solids into the immaterial epiphany of vision. The light we see is the gleaming artistic shadow of a past adventure. It immerses us in a timeless dreamscape in which digital imagination embraces ephemeral physicality.