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He is now using multi-screen documentary to explore climate change-driven sea level rise in a postgraduate degree for Sydney College of the Arts (University of Sydney). Our car culture leaves its mark on the world not just by upwards manipulation of the global temperature, but in these asphalt and concrete monuments to excess that it leaves behind.Īdam Sébire is a photographer and filmmaker with a number of documentary credits to his name. The symbolism of desertification hangs heavily over our species as our addiction to fossil fuels slowly cooks the planet. What happened, we ask? What does it mean? Do we turn around and go back? Or do we motor onwards? And so off with bravado we head toward the horizon, confident in our technology, yet secretly fearful of being swallowed by the sands.

Which is precisely what makes a highway that runs out so disturbing. A desert highway need not have cars it has just to offer potential: to lead us, in our vehicular isolation, to civilisation at high speed, from even the furthest reaches of nature. With these symbols we attempt to tame the desert, to insist on perspective, to prove we are bigger than its expanse. It arrives pre-packaged with its own vanishing point and sculpturally minimalist aesthetic, inscribing the sandy void with the familiar markings of civilisation: dotted white lines, roadsigns, streetlights and roundabouts. The desert resists perspectival representation - until it is penetrated by that icon of 'progress', the Highway. There is an uneasiness at such immensity, and intensity, of nature. Surrounded by desert, the city-dweller feels small and exposed. Deserted, fully-signposted multi-lane highways cut swathes through the sand, only to end equally precipitously in the middle of nowhere monuments to excess and the money that ran out. Roads to Nowhere is an exhibition of photographic stills & video art shot in and around Dubai after the global financial crisis.

Road to nowhere video pdf#

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