Moving between film and video, Laurence Favre’s work brings an experimental approach to filming the natural world.
A selection of works by the Swiss filmmaker with a practice that lies at the intersection of observation and transformation, memory and disappearance.
Working mainly with analogue film, Favre explores the boundaries of presence and absence, weaving landscapes, natural elements, and fleeting encounters into poetic meditations on transformation and disappearance. Resisting the trappings of straightforward documentation, Favre transforms each film into an active dialogue with the world, where erosion, combustion, decay appear as living, cinematic processes.
From fragments of landscapes to records of vanishing spaces, the six films in this program including her latest short Zerzura are marked by a tactile sense of time and movement. Films like Osmosis and In Loving Memory of the Future gives us immersive encounters that drawn from the elemental in our world, shaped by both wonder and an inherent sense of fragility. Together, they form a cinematic ecosystem where observation itself becomes an act of care: hers is an experiment in attentiveness to what endures, transforms, or vanishes.
The six films in Natural Experiments: The Films of Laurence Favre gathers these observations into a single retrospective, presenting Favre’s films as experiments in attention, where poetic inquiry and ecological consciousness intersect, opening new ways of seeing and listening to the world.
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