Sector – an immersive environmental protest
Sector ( dir. Wojciech Olchowski) is an artistic impression, expressed through butoh dance, of the controversial transformation of the landscape and biotope by humans, in the form of an immersive 360-degree video with evocative sound and original music. The project was co-produced with the Visual Narratives Laboratory at the Łódź Film School.
Filming for Sector took place in September 2019 in a landscape park on the narrowest section of the Vistula Spit, which in February 2019 was stripped of 10,000 trees in just a few days. The site was designated for leveling and digging a canal, which, according to most experts, will have no significant economic utility, but will cause enormous damage to local nature and tourism.
The Sector – how to look at it – is like any other land. The sun warms it just as it warms the rest of the forest around it, only there are no trees. They were taken away, but some remain. The Sector defines itself – trees on both sides, cut off as if with a knife. The wind blows differently here, even though it seems to be the same wind from the sea. The easiest way to reach the Sector is from the asphalt road. The asphalt is even and smooth, but here there are hills, and you have to walk between them and climb them. You can see them from the asphalt road, standing there, inviting you. They have marked the way to the viewpoint overlooking the sea and the bay. Oh, here is the Valley of Despair, and here is the Field of Bones, and here is Skull Hill. The Sector doesn’t ask if you’re good or bad, but shows you a certain path. The path we are all now following, where it leads – you see, you know. The Sector is a section that is healing with greenery, maybe it will heal, maybe on its own, maybe with help, maybe not at all…
(Text based on Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky)
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