Erratic Lands - A filmic journey on Alpine Apparatus |
by Julian Berger
Austria, 2024, 75 min
Voice | Julia Posch
Sound design | Jan Aimé Fräulin
Sound recording | Lukas Klestil
Script Editing | Theresa Kraus
VFX Support | Nathaniel Loretz
it tangible and accessible to human interaction. By computing and appropriating this landscape the terrain is in turn transformed and reshaped by efforts to control it.
In this process, the infrastructure must constantly adapt to the changing conditions of the moving ground, ultimately becoming the landscape itself.
The animated short-film Erratic Lands seeks to challenge prevailing notions of infrastructure as something hidden and concealed, instead exploring how such interventions can act as catalysts for rendering complex climatic processes more visible. It also investigates the dynamics of responsibility and maintenance within this precarious landscape, examining the imposition of human logic on the terrain and the interplay of maintenance performed and carried out by both human and non-human actors.
In this work, the Alps cease to exist as the purely natural environment known from romantic representations and become a stage that reveals the apparatuses necessary to establish a subtle balance between the desire for control and the attachment to the idea of nature as something
wild. Drawing on insights from environmental politics and geology the project critically examines the omissions, distortions, and ecological consequences of measuring and taming the wilderness through human-made infrastructures.