![]() Credits: Richard Mosse, Broken Spectre, 2022, Installation view © Richard Mosse, Jack Shainman and Carlier Gebauer He employs them to make a dystopian Western, because the fraught iconography of the Western film carries uncanny echoes of the reality encountered in the field-a natural paradise and its Indigenous populations being colonized by pioneer settlers with the righteous zeal of Manifest Destiny and a distinct form of cowboy culture. Credits: Richard Mosse, Broken Spectre, 2022, Film still © Richard Mosse, Jack Shainman and Carlier GebauerĪs in past projects, the media Mosse uses to tell these stories is encoded with complex, invisible layers of the systems involved, on international, governmental, and local levels. Broken Spectre is an attempt 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. Credits: Richard Mosse, Broken Spectre, 2022, Film still © Richard Mosse, Jack Shainman and Carlier Gebauerįor 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. ![]() 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. ![]() This dream-like immersive video forms an extensive record of widespread yet unseen fronts of deforestation and industrialized ecocide in the Amazon Basin, unveiled using a range of powerful scientific imaging technologies, at the tipping point of this crucial ecosystem’s erasure. Broken Spectre (2022) 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.
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