Where is Now
Michaela Lind

“Where is Now is an absurdist meditation on ecological crisis and human connection” Michaela Lind writes. Drawing on the deadpan surrealism of Daniil Kharms and the comedy of Roy Andersson and Jacques Tati, Lind follows a peculiar protagonist, K, as endless rain blurs the boundary between fantasy and reality. The film’s sonic catalyst was Lind’s encounter with whale song – its capacity to open communication in art-therapy sessions became the project’s core question: “what do we lose within ourselves when we silence the whales?”

Where is Now literally queries the present moment in an era of escalating ecological chaos – what remains of “now” when seas flood, species fall silent and the rhythms that once anchored everyday life dissolve? K frantically struggles to locate some sense of presence amid collapse – “this went into this, that went into that … what’s left?” he asks. Here, the current moment is already displaced by past harm and future uncertainty.

Placed at the close of Flood, the film reframes inundation as an existential condition – a call to listen, to reclaim what we can of the present, and to answer: if not now, when?