Hybrid Terrains, 2021
4K video, stereo sound
Duration: 6 minutes and 6 seconds
Hybrid Terrains brings vegetal and human bodies into dialogue. With an audio created from electromagnetic signals emitted by plants, the work seeks a non-anthropocentric approach to filmmaking. The film invites you to observe, sense and question our relationship with the vegetal world.
Excerpt of Hybrid Terrains. Total duration 06:06.
Written and directed by Elise Guillaume
Production: John Janssens
Director of photography: Edouard Outters
Steadicam Operator: Sander Blok
Camera Assistant: Sylvestre Van Noorenberghe
Sound & Editing: Elise Guillaume
Special thanks to Meise Botanic Garden & Jekyll 'n Hyde.
Elise Guillaume recording electromagnetic signals emitted by plants. Photo by Nina Courjon.
Selected screenings and exhibitions:
Guardian Art Centre (Beijing) – Art Nova 100 exhibition – 2023
Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques (Marseille) – Official selection – 2022
Imagine Science Film Festival (New York) – Official selection – 2022
VIDEOFORMES (Clermont-Ferrand) – Official selection – 2022
Arsenale (Venice) – ArteLaguna Prize – 2022
Aesthetica Art Prize (York) – York Art Gallery – 2022
Meise Botanic Garden (Meise) – exhibition – 2022
Expo 2020 (Dubai) – British Pavillion (RCA selection) – 2022
Awards
Aesthetica Art Prize – Finalist – 2022
ArteLaguna Art Prize – Winner of Art Nova Prize – 2022
Prix de L’Oeuvre Expérimentale De La Scam (preselected) – 2022
Selected Press
2022
Meet the Aesthetica Art Prize Finalists, Aesthetica Magazine. Issue 107
125 Contemporary Artists from the Aesthetica Art Prize, Future Now 2022 Anthology
UAL alumni shortlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2022, UAL alumni news