The Final Cut (Istanbul Design Biennial)
In this fictional desktop movie, an internet user comes across a podcast, which looks at the night sky, exploring satellites, space junk and international collaboration between aerospatial engineering companies. Triggered by what he hears, the user is left wondering whose interests are being protected in outer space. Over the course of his research, the Internet user becomes aware of a certain lack of organisation in the cosmos (a near-crash between ESA and Starlink satellites, an overabundance of debris, etc.). This dream territory does not seem to be governed by common laws, and who runs what and how, in a landscape populated by an increasing number of private actors, has become an urgent question. The movie thus questions a dreamy and romantic image of space through the voice of an invented activist group, ‘The Final Cut’, whose members believe that if space is part of the commons, all members of that common should have a say in a story that is being written right now.
Collaborative work with: Jonas Hejduk, Juliette Mirabito and Rebecca Schedler.
Mentored by: Irene Stracuzzi and Martina Muzi (Design Academy Eindhoven)
Produced in occasion of Empathy Revisited: Designs for more than one, 5th Istanbul Design Biennial curated by Mariana Pestana and supported by the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Istanbul.
(The Final Cut, Full Movie, 06:52)