Everything’s coming together while everything’s falling apart: Limity Jsme My (2019)
In June 2018, climate activists blocked the Bílina coal mine in northern Bohemia, Czech Republic, in an attempt to stop all climate-destructive mining activities. They had mutually agreed not to cause any material damage and to avoid direct confrontation with the police. Nonetheless, 280 of the approximately 400 protestors were arrested. Against the backdrop of a landscape shattered by lignite (brown coal) mining, Oliver Ressler follows the arrested group with his camera, trapped by a police cordon. As we see images filmed from a prisoner transport vehicle, we hear a voice-over that reflects on mass civil disobedience.
Artist and filmmaker Oliver Ressler makes installations and projects in the public space and has now produced more than thirty films on subjects such as economy, democracy, civil resistance and climate. In 2019, the Noorderlicht International Photography Festival showed a film by Ressler and Zanny Begg, concerning the financial and economic crisis of 2008.
single-channel video, 10:00 min
courtesy of àngels (Barcelona) and The Gallery Apart (Rome)
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