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


The Sky has never been so close, installation view at Tent, Rotterdam, 2022



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