AfterMath

AfterMath describes a time when there was a wide spread belief of some grand global plan when in reality there was no plan of any kind, only competing interests constantly jockeying for a dominate position. Sequences in order of appearance: Soviet computer scientist just prior to the dissolution of the USSR – Another Soviet computer scientist just prior to the dissolution of the USSR – Semi-Trailer Truck with Trans Mountain gas line pipes resting at a Travel Center in BC – The Poplar River coal fired electrical power plant during a period of record rainfall in Saskatchewan – Abandoned car exposed on a lake bed during a record breaking drought in Saskatchewan – Canadian newscaster describing an event during the G10 summit in Toronto – Super 8 movie clip from my Museum of Post Habitation – Decommissioned electrical sub-station near my house in BC – 3D print file (animated) of the HDV videotape camera I recorded with for many years.

Film Maker
Tate, Kent
Year
2024
Country
Canada
Length
2
Language
English
Category
Activism + Protest, Anthropocene, cameraless, Capitalism + Economics, Class-struggle, Earth, Ecology, found footage, Memory, Nature, Resistance, Sustainability, Time + Space
Genre
Animation, docufiction, experimental, hand-processed, Installation, short