Gerard Ortín
2021Reserve
Gerard Ortín
The wolf no longer inhabits the land that once formed part of its territory, and only through its outlines can we get closer to it; remnants of wolf traps, predator urine imported from the US, a dung-hill used to feed scavenger birds and archers that shoot at replicas of animals. Reserve constructs a story about the fragile balance of a territory after the disappearance of the predator, where the complex co-existence between humans and non-humans presents a distinctly marked anthropogenic ecosystem.
Reserve
Lycisca
Gerard Ortín
"LYCISCA, shot in Karrantza, an historic mining area of Bilbao and also one of the most rural areas of the province, departs from the myth of the Carranza Wolf, but portrays the industrial farming system, as well as the system by which museums exploit animal life and geology." - Anthology Film Archives
Lycisca
Future Foods
Gerard Ortín
Future Foods revolves around the making of plastic food at the workshops of Replica LTD, one of the few UK based companies that still manufactures props for films, advertisements and displays. The perception of food, its appealingness and palatability through a constructed image, come into play when observing these hand-crafted manufacturing processes through a camera. A phone conversation with the CEO of a Finnish future foods' start-up introduces us to a cutting edge technology consisting of the production of a new protein generated from water, electricity and CO2 captured from the air. "Solein" is a new technology that speculates with a near future without agriculture and land use effects.
Future Foods
