Isoleiltion

6 Film sequences

HEAD Geneva

2020

Images © Rachel Hoffmann

Isoleiltion was created during a two weeks workshop with the french designer Matali Crasset. It is a retrospective project about the unknown benefits of the confinement situation of 2020. Without minimizing the negative effects of the situation, the focus lies in the positive insights that we were able to gain from this time. Isoleiltion offers an insight on how transformational experiences that occur in unusual and difficult situations can lead to findings that we were previously unaware of. 

Through 6 sequences, the project tells the course of the process of photosynthesis, creating subtle parallels to the situation of confinement, with which the viewer can gradually identify with and reflect on what he has increasingly resonated with during the time of the confinement. 

Immersive images visually reproduce the textual process and are intended to bring the subject closer to the viewer. They address the importance of the transformation process and elucidate the danger that an end to the process would entail. The symbolism of the transformation process refers to both the process of photosynthesis and the process in which mankind regains access to the forgotten in times of confinement and increasingly reconnects with elementary components of life. 

The visuals were therefore created with the two most important components necessary for the photosynthesis process. Water and light, forming abstract forms in harmony, which do not represent the process of photosynthesis scientifically but in a transferred way.