Ambience

Ambience is a short video shot on location at the Gavin power plant in Cheshire Ohio in 2010. As part of the Critical Regionalism Initiative, this piece explores the political ecology of the region in terms of geology, geography and economic relations. Ambience is available as either a high definition digital video, or a looped 16mm film. Running time: 9minutes 36 seconds. Matthew Friday, Trent Reeves and Francis Tatum. Funded by the Ohio University Research Council.

Ambience simultaneously evokes the frame and points towards the ways in which events exceed these limits. The smoke plume is concurrently framed and enframing, external and internal. The particles of soot, sulfur dioxide and water vapor do not simply occupy the rectangle of the video, they have become part of the atmosphere; they are in you. The Brownian motion of these particles recalls Monet's Water Lilies; if we stand too close to the surface we collapse back into it.
for more information see:
http://www.matthewfriday.net/research/?page_id=151

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• mining
• ecology
• environment
• mountain top removal
• radical
• coal