To Belong + Towards the Sun
Mats Landström
Official Selection
𖤘 Shorts: Experimental
Our closing pair in Ground, by Mats Landström, both turn to the question of climate denial. Towards the Sun portrays a world on the brink of collapse. Yet paradoxically, people persist in their daily rituals as if nothing were amiss. It raises the uneasy question: are they oblivious to the gravity of their surroundings, or is their nonchalance a coping mechanism, a fragile solace in a world increasingly out of balance? In To Belong, the protagonist finds himself immersed in nature, wandering through forests and along the water’s edge. Alienated yet captivated, he navigates an unfamiliar world that is both beautiful and disorienting, embodying the subtle dissonance between human routines and the environments they inhabit.
Landström is a Swedish multidisciplinary artist whose work spans film, sound design and fine-art. He creates immersive audiovisual experiences that explore themes of alienation, societal detachment, and the dissonance between human routines and environmental realities.
Production: Mats Landström
Kay cast: Helena Norell
Courtesy of the artist