Seven Laws reconfigures long takes of natural landscapes as a response to the anxieties of living in the Anthropocene. It is a contemplation of nature and its subtle processes.
The footage was filmed on a Japanese mountain once occupied by logging companies, and at Thirlmere Lakes, Australia, the ancestral home of the Indigenous Dharawal and Gundungurra people, until recently a body of water thriving with life, now completely drained due to mining and industry. In both locations, trees are sacred in the local traditional lore - the cedar is revered as home to spirits in the Shinto religion, the sakura tree is a Buddhist metaphor for ephemerality, and acacia and eucalypts are both medicines and protectors in Aboriginal Australian traditions.
Music composed and performed by Francis Macindoe and Jose PIncheira.
Seven Laws (2019)
8 minutes
Single channel digital video, stereo sound