Wetlands of Pharmacology

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Directed by Moritz Jekat

Completed:

30.08.2024

Format:

Immersive Video Installation & Short Film

Producer:

Valentina Parati, Moritz Jekat

When the stories governing the world no longer make sense, five artists gather inside a digital wetland to imagine new ones.

Moving through a shared landscape of avatars, dreams, conversations, and speculative encounters, they search for ways of navigating a world increasingly shaped by technological power, political fragmentation, and competing realities. Developed through collective writing sessions, Wetlands of Pharmacology treats the digital not as an escape from the world but as one of its central battlegrounds.

Part film, part installation, part collective experiment, the work transforms a game engine into a space where alternative narratives, relationships, and futures can be rehearsed. Refusing both technological optimism and nostalgic retreat, Wetlands of Pharmacology asks what becomes possible when imagination is reclaimed as a collective act.

Co-Production:

ECAL, SOGNI PRODUCTION

Script:

Valentina Parati, Antoine Simeão-Schalk, Yuna-Lee Pfau, Andrea Bocca, Moritz Jekat

Sound & Music:

Noah Gokul, Tamara Meli

Sculptures & Set-Design:

Felice Berny-Tarente, Marine Col, Moritz Jekat

© 2024