In Between the Lines
. . multimedia installation with video, trees and automated hammers

Between the Lines is a visual essay film with an orchestra of robotic drummers playing trunks from the protected forest near Verdun.

The sound and film installation focuses on the effects of drought and climate change in this forest located in the Red Zone (Zone Rouge) in the northeast of France. It relates to the ongoing struggle to deal with the aftermath and remnants of the First World War within the global climate crisis, which impacted this particular landscape on a monumental scale.

The film consists of short chapters with black-and-white assemblages of contemporary film and drone images, recent aerial LiDAR images of the craters and trenches in the forest, and historical photographs of the devastated landscape after WWI. These are interspersed with slow panoramic close-ups of bark from fallen trees with bark beetle traces.