by Rä di Martino

HD double channel video installation

Afterall uses a clear language in the two-channel projection, but leaves the chronological aspect of the story open. Every element – digital landscapes, characters, clothing and sounds – reinforces the paradoxical relationship between real and imagined. In the video each subject is accompanied by a specific sound that marks its tribal group or species. The universally known elements find themselves faced with alienating and disquieting situations. The imagined encounter between the various inhabitants of this invented future unfolds only through sounds.Within this premise of a science fiction film, imaginary characters arise, vagabonds of the future, but also small confused divinities that lose their way in real or digital landscapes. Their imaginary encounter happens only thanks to the sound that comes from different places, whose radio frequencies seem to be tuned for a moment, as in an orchestra. In the double projection thus the soundtrack plays a central role, in which noises, songs, choirs, whispers, the rhythms of nature and the sounds generated by the objects, are combined in a dissonance that includes and reveals the various imaginary identities.