Bordered

In an unknown near future and recent past, a filmmaker is trying to retrace the steps of Silvia. “Who is Silvia? What is Silvia?” Silvia has gone missing. In this filmic reconstruction, Silvia drifts with the forest, attempting to attune to its temporalities and to bridge the supposedly opposing worldviews of ‘Sequency and Simultaneity’, of presence and duration.

Underneath the borders of the forest but also of science, the destructive powers of a proprietarian society only obey the laws of succession. Here, the socialist plans of the post-war era are being demolished and cleared for new and profitable housing.

But in Silvia’s archive, city infrastructure and forest root systems are being integrated. Silvia’s recordings are cut in intervals where time itself becomes unstable. Through a numbering system of repeating patterns, progression is broken. Silvia has abandoned the society of ‘means to an end’. In this gesture lies a path to un-build the walls that have infiltrated all aspects of this world.