Richard Mosse: "Broken Spectre"

Schedule

Fri Jun 09 2023 at 02:30 pm to 03:00 pm

Location

Minnesota Street Project Foundation | San Francisco, CA

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The Minnesota Street Project Foundation presents the U.S. Premiere of Richard Mosse's immersive video installation "Broken Spectre."
About this Event

Broken Spectre (2022) is a dreamlike immersive video artwork that forms an extensive record of widespread yet unseen fronts of deforestation and industrialized ecocide in the Amazon, unveiled using a range of powerful scientific imaging technologies, at the tipping point of this crucial ecosystem’s erasure.

Through abrupt leaps in scale and medium, the film reveals unsustainable processes of extractive violence: illegal logging, mass burning, wildcat goldmining, the theft of Indigenous lands, species extinction, flooding and damming of rivers, and the forest’s colonization for encroaching monoculture plantations and vast intensive cattle farms.

“For decades, scientists have harnessed advanced forms of remote sensing photography to understand the forest’s degradation, model tipping points, and reveal impending environmental catastrophe underway in the Amazon. In Broken Spectre, I have tried to dial in on these opaque subjects using similar scientific imaging technologies, aggravated media that carry some agency in the biome’s destruction, as they are also used as tools of resource extraction by mining and agribusiness interests. So, as in past projects, the media I have chosen to tell these stories is embedded with complex, invisible layers of the systems involved, on international, governmental, and local levels. And I’ve used these media to make a Western, because the fraught iconography of the Western film carries uncanny echoes of the reality that I encountered in the field — a natural paradise and its Indigenous population being colonized by pioneer settlers with the righteous zeal of Manifest Destiny and a distinctly Texano style of cowboy culture. Broken Spectre, which I made in collaboration with cinematographer Trevor Tweeten and composer Ben Frost, is a disquieting portrait of willful environmental catastrophe along the Trans-Amazonian Highway told through a kaleidoscope of scientific, cultural, historic, socio-political, activist, and anthropological filters.” —Richard Mosse

Co-presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation, SFMOMA, and Altman Siegel.

74 minutes and 11 seconds, four-channel 4K video with 12.2 surround sound. 15,360 x 2,160 overall video projection resolution. Produced in Brazil and Ecuador.

Broken Spectre was co-commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria, VIA Art Fund, the Westridge Foundation, and the Serpentine Galleries. Additional support was provided by Collection SVPL and Jack Shainman Gallery.

Director / Producer.....................................Richard Mosse

Cinematographer / Editor...........................Trevor Tweeten

Composer / Sound Design..........................Ben Frost

Digital Colorist / Post-Production................Jerome Thelia

Film Processing and Studio Manager...........Matthew Warren

Film Processing Advisor...............................Cary Kung

Film Processing Assistant............................Kimin Kim

Film Scanning.............................................Metropolis Film Lab

Fixer / Translator / Driver............................Gabriel Uchida

Fixer / Translator / Driver............................Alessandro Falco

Fixer / Translator / Driver............................Marco Lima

Fixer / Translator........................................Gabriel Bogossian

Fixer / Translator........................................Alejandro del Solar Bravo

Production Assistant.................................Diana Morales Ocegueda

Driver........................................................Edimar Tozzo

Helicopter.................................................Aereo Especial

Multispectral camera engineer.................Jeffrey Carson, Spectral Devices

35mm Camera Rental...............................Hand Held Films

Sound Engineer........................................Mike Amacio, Carlos Boix

Advisor.....................................................Jon Lee Anderson

Cloud Forest Guides................................Alex Guevara, Arlette Arn

Yanomama Translator..............................Ana Maria Antunes Machado

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Minnesota Street Project Foundation, 1201 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, United States

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