Geo Barcan

I am an artist, filmmaker and writer interested in the relationship between politics, technology, identity and history. Political, ecological, cosmological, and technological themes come to the surface through the experiences of beings familiar to the peripheries, at the edge of the world. I think of my moving-image practice as a cinema of invisibility, through which I trace forces that are both unseen and hyper-present, such as the internet, memory, migration, ideology, and long-term socio-political transformations. I am drawn to changes that unfold gradually over time, becoming so embedded in everyday life that their after-effects are difficult to locate or question. I am interested in what gets to be seen and what stays hidden in the urgent, present moment and in recent histories that continue to shape it.