Enar de Dios Rodríguez
(Ourense, 1986)Liquid ground, 2021
Essay film, HD, color, sound
31:46 min
Director’s statement
Liquid ground was conceived in a moment in which the Patania II robot is sucking minerals from the bottom of the ocean, while the fallen skeleton of a whale allows the construction of complex ecosystems in the seabed, while a sonar determines how deep is the sea, and while we continue, unceasingly, every day, swallowing saliva. At this very moment, while you read these lines, and everything is happening simultaneously.
This 30 min film talks about how we learned to see the bottom of the ocean in a chronological order: through the first illustrations of the species living there, the museum gaze that resulted from moving the seas to the cities, and the digital representations that are being produced nowadays for these territories. But it also talks about cartography, colonialism, ecology and representation. In fact, Liquid ground is a video essay that understands looking and thinking as an endless poem. As any other form of knowledge, this film is also a series of riddles.
