wanderers
wanderers (2021)
duration: 8' 24"
An Experimental film by Vojislav Radovanović
Music by Joseph Carrillo
Puppeteering by Jason Jenn
Production by Flourish Projects Group, 2021
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The "wanderers" is an audio-video artwork by Vojislav Radovanovic in collaboration with composer Joseph Carrillo. This work is about grief and anxiety for the growing climate crisis and the sixth mass extinction-level event that our planet is currently experiencing due to human impact. The video tells the story of the two last surviving birds flying through a desolate landscape of a burned forest, as told by a human puppeteer (performed by Jason Jenn), suggesting that the action is taking place in a barren future where there is little other life in existence.
The use of some repetitive sequences is a reference to looped social media videos, a popular visual style we have grown accustomed to in this human-influenced Anthropocene era.
The footage was recorded few months after the wildfires in the area heavily affected by global climate change.
"wanderers" was as part of the site-specific work titled "Prophecy" at my solo exhibition "Ornithomancy" at Diana Berger Gallery in 2022. You can see more here...
"wanderers" was part of the ambient-installation "BUREAU FOR UNSPOKEN STORIES" at El Camino College Art Gallery, 2021.