Merapi

Merapi
Merapi

2021, Indonesia/Canada, 16mm on video, color, silent, 8 min.

Malena Szlam’s latest 16mm short film, Merapi, shot around Mount Merapi, one of the planet’s most active and deadly volcanoes, located on the border of the Central Java region near Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Political geology, portrait of a place, shapeshifting, anthropocene dreams, radical nature, landscape as protagonist, portable ecologies, geography and imagination. Ela Bittencourt