Lost Rivers, Cyanotype, 2024In many cities around the world, rivers are no longer visible. They were diverted, buried beneath asphalt, forced into concrete channels, and erased from the urban landscape out of fear of flooding, in pursuit of hygiene, space, and progress. Yet their disappearance leaves traces
in memory, in the identity of these places, and in the relationship between people, nature, and the environment. At the Zurich University of the Arts, I developed the project Lost Rivers as a film and booklet based on the cyanotype process. Using this analogue technique, I hand-printed 4,000 individual frames, which were subsequently reassembled into a moving image.
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The result is a film running at 12 frames per second, composed of approximately 4,000 images, each developed, scanned, and cut out by hand.