Flotsam and Jetsam.

Abstract

The time-based piece “Flotsam and Jetsam” is a stop-motion video that refers to a beach walk and shows hundreds of collected Plastic pieces at different paces floating, appearing and disappearing on the screen. The title refers to 17th-century sailing terminology for materials or goods floating on the water after wreckage or released to lighten a sinking ship. These terms reflect on the found plastic objects and their appearance as floating and stranded goods, the aftermath of the streams of consumer goods discharged into our oceans, disappearing into an unknown future calling out SOS into the world of petrocaptialism. The viewer is invited to discover plastic garbage metamorphosing during the process of stop-motion animation into mysterious forms but also familiar objects passing by. Through different paces, the found objects appear as uncanny, artificial creatures, haunting us and our entanglement with plastic. https://vimeo.com/826981036