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Shine bright (like a worm)
Short Film (three minutes, twenty-four seconds), by Camille Belmin, in collaboration with Janina Weißengruber (2024)
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About the Film
Mainstream Western culture is saturated with an aesthetic of gloss and shininess that inherently opposes decay or dirt. The iconization of sleek bodies serves as a tool to attract attention and sell mass-produced consumer goods, holding promises of success and happiness.
What if living processes such as composting were idolized instead, using a language appropriate to the mass media? What if popular culture could
find an obsession with the feces of worms?
This speculative advertising campaign promotes decay and compost as critical components of life on earth - a rather obscure process for urbanized societies that should be brought back to the center of our attention. What are the potentialities and limitations of the language of capital to promote social and ecological transformation? Can the tools of aesthetic enchantment and the visual logic of selling be used in a progressive way to foster greater harmony and equality between different life forms?
Mainstream Western culture is saturated with an aesthetic of gloss and shininess that inherently opposes decay or dirt. The iconization of sleek bodies serves as a tool to attract attention and sell mass-produced consumer goods, holding promises of success and happiness.
What if living processes such as composting were idolized instead, using a language appropriate to the mass media? What if popular culture could
find an obsession with the feces of worms?
This speculative advertising campaign promotes decay and compost as critical components of life on earth - a rather obscure process for urbanized societies that should be brought back to the center of our attention. What are the potentialities and limitations of the language of capital to promote social and ecological transformation? Can the tools of aesthetic enchantment and the visual logic of selling be used in a progressive way to foster greater harmony and equality between different life forms?
Credits
Camera, editing: Camille Belmin, Janina Weißengruber
Shooting: Janina Weißengruber and Teuta Jonuzi
Music: INGI (Ines Cartas and Senergi)
Many thanks to the Angewandte photo studio, Jan Jancik and many other worms transforming trash into treasure.
Camera, editing: Camille Belmin, Janina Weißengruber
Shooting: Janina Weißengruber and Teuta Jonuzi
Music: INGI (Ines Cartas and Senergi)
Many thanks to the Angewandte photo studio, Jan Jancik and many other worms transforming trash into treasure.
Camille Belmin is an artist, researcher and lecturer in environmental
social sciences. In her artistic practice, she likes to collaborate with
metabolic processes, from composting to fermentation, to the complex and
beautiful realm of social metabolism. She is also interested in finding
new (and provocative) ways to communicate about the ecological crises
through artistic approaches. She works with photography, found object
installations and textiles, often allowing the serendipity of biological
processes to intervene in her work. She is in continuous search for
bringing (her) worlds of science and art together.
social sciences. In her artistic practice, she likes to collaborate with
metabolic processes, from composting to fermentation, to the complex and
beautiful realm of social metabolism. She is also interested in finding
new (and provocative) ways to communicate about the ecological crises
through artistic approaches. She works with photography, found object
installations and textiles, often allowing the serendipity of biological
processes to intervene in her work. She is in continuous search for
bringing (her) worlds of science and art together.
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