Ah Humanity

Ah humanity reflects on the fragility and folly of humanity in the age of the Anthropocene Taking the 31111 disaster of Fukushima as its point of departure it evokes an apocalyptic vision of modernity and our predilection for historical amnesia and futuristic flights of fancy Shot on a telephone through a handheld telescope at once close to and far from its subject the audio composition combines excerpts from Japanese genbaku film soundtracks audio recordings from scientific seismic laboratories and location soundErnst Karel Verena Paravel Lucien CastaingTaylor