Entanglements is an attempt to come to terms with increasingly inhospitable conditions.

By imagining a prosthetic skin that allows human symbiosis with other species, the project aims to comment on interdependence in the aftermath of an ecological catastrophe.

Filmed in a salt harvesting site in Salinas, Ecuador, the short film features an algae-based biomaterial that forms a vehicle for organisms who thrive in extreme conditions to live in close proximity with humans.

Quote from Samuel Becket’s play Endgame (1957)
Voice: Polina Cold
Sound and actor: Alfredo Ramírez Raymond

Supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture

Exhibited at Rupert’s “Things that we were thinking with”, 2020