This Porous Earth
Shorts: "Faces of the Earth"
Salt Beyoğlu
July 4, 2026 15.00
![27 It Matters What <i>It Matters What</i> [Neyin Ne Olduğu Önemli] (2019) filminden bir kare
©Francisca Duran](/directus/media/thumbnails/27-it-matters-what-jpg-780-5000-false.jpg)
Still from It Matters What (2019)
©Francisca Duran
©Francisca Duran
Walk-in Cinema
Presented as part of This Porous Earth, the selection focuses on the intimate relationship between the surface of film and the surfaces that make up the living world. It explores how plants, fruits, minerals, and landscapes become part of the film material itself through various photochemical and cameraless techniques.
Textures of bark, leaves, vegetal pigments, and sunlight appear not only as subjects to be recorded, but as elements that transform the image from within. Moving between microscopic textures and imagined landscapes, the films blur the boundaries between representation and material contact. Together, they reveal cinema as a porous surface where light, vegetation, and chemistry become inseparable.
Phytography, Karel Doing, 2020, 8’09”
Allowing leaves, petals, and stems to imprint themselves directly onto the emulsion, the film reveals the visual possibilities of plant chemistry.
Anthology for Fruits and Vegetables, Dawn George, 2019, 14’52”
Using eco-processing and eco-reversal techniques, the film uncovers the colors and textures hidden within twenty-six fruits and vegetables.
Discoveries on the Forest Floor, Charlotte Pryce, 2006, 4’
Drawing on 17th-century botanical paintings, three heliographic studies bring together plants and their imagined environments.
Daucus Buganvilia, Florencia Aliberti, 2022, 5’28”
Bringing lichen, dried petals, and woodland plants into direct contact with the film strip, the work reveals vegetal textures and patterns at a microscopic scale.
A Perfect Storm, Karel Doing, 2022, 3’
Using seeds, flowers, and wild plants collected from cultivated and protected landscapes, the work creates a vegetal imprint directly on the emulsion.
Terre Rouge Terre Noire, Agnès Perrais, 2024, 7’
Dunes, grasslands, sea, and stormy skies are transformed through photochemical operations into an imagined insular landscape.
It Matters What, Francisca Duran, 2019, 9’
Combining found footage with in-camera animation, contact prints, and phytograms produced by exposing plant-covered 16mm film to direct sunlight, the work draws on the writings of Donna J. Haraway to explore relationships between human and more-than-human forms of life.
Presented as part of This Porous Earth, the selection focuses on the intimate relationship between the surface of film and the surfaces that make up the living world. It explores how plants, fruits, minerals, and landscapes become part of the film material itself through various photochemical and cameraless techniques.
Textures of bark, leaves, vegetal pigments, and sunlight appear not only as subjects to be recorded, but as elements that transform the image from within. Moving between microscopic textures and imagined landscapes, the films blur the boundaries between representation and material contact. Together, they reveal cinema as a porous surface where light, vegetation, and chemistry become inseparable.
Phytography, Karel Doing, 2020, 8’09”
Allowing leaves, petals, and stems to imprint themselves directly onto the emulsion, the film reveals the visual possibilities of plant chemistry.
Anthology for Fruits and Vegetables, Dawn George, 2019, 14’52”
Using eco-processing and eco-reversal techniques, the film uncovers the colors and textures hidden within twenty-six fruits and vegetables.
Discoveries on the Forest Floor, Charlotte Pryce, 2006, 4’
Drawing on 17th-century botanical paintings, three heliographic studies bring together plants and their imagined environments.
Daucus Buganvilia, Florencia Aliberti, 2022, 5’28”
Bringing lichen, dried petals, and woodland plants into direct contact with the film strip, the work reveals vegetal textures and patterns at a microscopic scale.
A Perfect Storm, Karel Doing, 2022, 3’
Using seeds, flowers, and wild plants collected from cultivated and protected landscapes, the work creates a vegetal imprint directly on the emulsion.
Terre Rouge Terre Noire, Agnès Perrais, 2024, 7’
Dunes, grasslands, sea, and stormy skies are transformed through photochemical operations into an imagined insular landscape.
It Matters What, Francisca Duran, 2019, 9’
Combining found footage with in-camera animation, contact prints, and phytograms produced by exposing plant-covered 16mm film to direct sunlight, the work draws on the writings of Donna J. Haraway to explore relationships between human and more-than-human forms of life.
