Liquid Grounds is produced using the glass objects from the work of the same title. There, they become reanimated and appear, as if viewed through a microscope, like living microorganisms—singly, in groups, or in pairs—drifting in and out against a vast black background. The film is divided into chapters titled with numbers, resembling a typical educational science film that delves into micro- and macrocosmic dimensions. In Liquid Grounds, an archaeology of a specific, familiar place transfers and transforms into abstraction, eventually spreading into unicellular organisms such as blood cells, bacteria, unicellular fungi, or alien moons and planets. All movements of the objects were filmed manually using a floating lightbox on a water tank.
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making silicon molds of wooden floor at my home in Amsterdam Noord