Ben Russell
(16mm, color, sound, 10min, 2002)
A pinhole film, a cheap robot voice, a makeshift history. An explorer’s tale of the unknown part of the world.
Terra Incognita is a lensless film whose cloudy pinhole images create a memory of history. Ancient and modern explorer texts of Easter Island are garbled together by a computer narrator, resulting in a forever repeating narrative of discovery, colonialism, loss and departure. [ more information ]



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