Geo Barcan
The Sky has never been so close
Video installation, 2022
The Sky has never been so close:
15 mins | 4K | English with English Subtitles
Soil critters
ceramic, soil, textile, paper
Being in her grandmother’s garden as a child made Geo realize that she did not identify with her human family, but rather with one formed of insects, flowers, herbs, worms and other non-human beings.
The Sky has never been so close is a look into the world of Geo’s childhood, her trauma and her time spent with persons of all sizes and species. She uses fiction as a way of making sense of this world. The film is an adaptation from a collection of autofictional stories where the filmmaker recounts events from the garden of her past. Mothers make love to mites, flowers eat humans and spores take over the house as the viewer enters a magical-realist world.
The Sky has never been so close:
15 mins | 4K | English with English Subtitles
Soil critters
ceramic, soil, textile, paper
Video documentation
Credits
Camera
Geo Barcan
Editing
Geo Barcan
Edwin Mingard
Supervision
Edwin Mingard
Voice over
Geo Barcan
Production
Ioana Pop
Music
Ollie Paterson
Sound mixing
Ryan McDowell
Stop motion assistants
Marusha Vehovar
Martin Osowski
Garvan Corr
Characters
Monica Ruiz Van Hattem
Federico Poni
Ollie Paterson