Although the oceans make up more than 70% of the Earth, until now only a very small part of the seabed has been mapped. However, in recent years, the mapping of these spaces has accelerated due to different economic, geopolitical and scientific interests, determined to build a “new continent” to be explored and exploited under the sea. Liquid ground is a video essay that takes as its thematic axis the ocean floor and its current cartography to talk about colonialism, ecology and representation.
Script, editing, camera: Enar de Dios Rodríguez
Voices: Eilís Kenney and Lilly Bridge
Soundtrack: nara is neus and Valentí Adell
With images from Reports of the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, Internet Archive (Antonio Guillén's Water Project), Kiln shipmap.org, YouTube (Geoscience Australia, Neville Sanjana), Wikimedia Commons (Craig Smith NOAA), Pond5, PANGAEA (Jens Greinert, Timm Schoening, Kevin Köser, Marcel Rothenbeck) and recorded at Haus des Meeres (Vienna)
Influenced by the writings of Etel Adnan, Karen Barad, Roberto Bolaño, Eva Hayward, Stefan Helmreich, Luce Irigaray, Melody Jue, Claudia La Rocco, Lynn Margulis, Nature, Astrida Neimanis, Adrienne Rich, Catriona Sandilands, Juliana Spahr, and Wikipedia
Color correction (Chapter II): Kurt Hennrich
