Owning the Fractures
Planetary Intimacies

Owning the Fractures follows the creation of a time capsule, sealed within a melting glacier. Inside: a glacier crack frottage, a large-scale rubbing taken directly from the fractured ice surface.

Here, mark-making becomes a form of fieldwork. Canvases are laid onto crevasses, absorbing traces of volcanic ash and carbon-based ink – the very substances that have, since the Industrial Revolution, contributed to the glacier’s breakdown. The resulting images are not depictions, but imprints of contact.

The placement of the time capsule becomes a gesture suspended between presence and loss, now and later. As the glacier melts, the capsule – or what remains of it – will eventually reappear. The film asks: how do we relate to what is disappearing? What remains when we take rupture seriously – geologically, emotionally, politically?

Owning the Fractures is a meditation on responsibility and the limits of representation. A call to see landscape not as backdrop, but as a vulnerable, entangled system.