film/video
Fossilis

2023, single channel video, 12' 58''

Riar Rizaldi

Fossilis is a oneiric cinema, a phantasmal science-fiction prognosis, an essay film, and a tale of the verdant inferno of technological legacy, resonating the complexity of electronic waste in the 21st century Asia where most of the discarded electronics – due to the planned obsolescence – in the planet is dumped and buried. With live-action sets built from waste materials, scenes from flea markets of cannibalization parts, 3D assets and environment from abandoned projects, and AI images generated from thousands of unused images from a personal dataset, Fossilis offers more than just concepts, narratives, and representation of e-waste as an issue. The film engages in the process, development, and modes of film production that involve both digital and physical waste and e-waste objects as means of artistic practice.