PLACE FOR LEAVING, (2019-2024)

HD digital video, 19min 38sec
sound design by James Ivačković

In the video, a subject is wandering through a landscape in a nonlinear, dream-like sequence. The unidentified industrial town where the video takes place was meant to be a very prosperous place where the urban environment is balanced out by surrounding nature. There an unrestricted and rapid growth of the town meant that urban planners were able to incorporate vast amounts of parks, green areas and urban woodlands within the city or around.

However with the decline of physical industries prospects of the perfectly balanced urban and natural environments are failed by the lack of financial prosperity and these places get abandoned for bigger, overpopulated cities. These towns become appreciated as places which people aspire to leave.

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