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Black Hole Legion 2021 Video 2K 12min
In collaboration with Ariel Sereni Brown
World premiere: Nuuk International film festival, GRL
On the foothills of Uummannaq mountain, four cybergoth teens are fighting depression. Water contamination spreads throughout the village pipelines and one cybergoth finds herself laying on a hospital bed. The cybergoths show us a post-apocalypse future, that is to say, the apocalyptic qualities of the present; a fragile reality where national, communal, environmental, and mental stability is at risk.
The film is narrated and written by a group of young Inuit women, reflecting on ongoing suicide attempts and the separation from their families. In between the realism of direct speech and the fantasy of future life, our filmmaking aimed to express the concerns of a new Greenlandic generation. We turned to the project with questions regarding various scales of the future. The making of such speculative exercises was realized upon a fragile ground, where high suicide rates, unemployment, and depression are depriving one ́s future. Using the post-apocalypse trope as one of the core motives of the cybergoth community, we found substantial rhetorical abilities to articulate narratives of devastation and suicide. While Greenlandic Inuit indigenous culture is being destabilized due to climate change, a parallel cancellation is made by Danish colonial power and western influences. Playing with themes of science fiction and post-apocalypse, the film portrays the Cybergoths - a post-humanist docu-fictional expression of colonial trauma.
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