Listening Landscapes

Abstract

Listening Landscapes is a collaborative video essay that takes landscape as its central question — not as scenery to observe, but as something felt, heard, and translated. Moving between seascapes, reversed footage, hand-drawn imagery, and text, the work asks who a landscape belongs to and what it means to inhabit one.

The video has a meditative rhythm: waves recede, a figure retreats into the horizon, drawn images dissolve into one another in a superimposed sequence. Sound gathered from border zones and thresholds is treated as texture rather than illustration, close, bodily, slightly private. Text interrupts and completes the image, reframing what is seen and heard, toying with our attention and understanding of the frame. Sequences suspend orientation, turning familiar landscape into something stranger and more open.

Landscape here is understood on multiple levels at once: the physical terrain, its representation in image and drawing, and the mental landscape of memory, displacement, and belonging. Beneath the formal play lies an autobiographical undertow, as questions of migration, of the self formed or lost in translation, and of what it means to look at a landscape from the outside guide the artists.