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The Firewall Grove

(2017 - 2018)

4K DCP, stereo sound, excerpt of 25 hours

In this chapter of a sprawling episodic para-documentary film work, a sect has locked themselves inside a compound to shelter from an ambiguous crisis happening outside. When a stranger arrives seeking refuge, the group's prophecies slowly begin to unfold. Filmed over the course of a week locked inside a Dutch 19th century fort, an underground Cold War bunker, and locales in the walled city of Citadella, the character and narrative development progressed freely in realtime through a series of performance exercises, with the resulting documentation slipping between fact, fiction, and fantasy.

core collaborators:
Claudio F Baroni, Mae Ocampo, Matthew Carney, Corine van Emmerik, Carina Erdmann, Raquel Sanchez Galez, Luuk Van Huet, Sandra Maat, Phillip Morris, Koen Nutters, Ksenia Perek, Violet Patton-Ryder, Julia Warner


[1] Film Production Still, 2018
[2] Installation view, 2018
[3] Film Production Still, 2018
[4] Film Production Still, 2018
[5] Film Production Still, 2018
[6] Film Production Still, 2018
[7] Film Production Still, 2018
[8] VFX, Film Production Still, 2018
[9] Installation view, 2018
[10] excerpt, Casey
[11] excerpt, Saturday morning, beauty is like this
[12] Film Production Still, 2018
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