8 DEGREES EAST – FILM SAMPLES

Note: Please understand, that these videos are here solely for reference. The films are all extremely site-specific, and can really be best understood in the context of the exhibits and installations they are part of in the Klimahaus museum (which would entail travel to Bremerhaven in Germany.)

Niger Line: In each country, we worked with local people, using local materials to create a small-scale, temporary “land art” work; a physical representation of the longitude we were traveling along, E8º34′ (eight degrees, thirty four minutes, East.) Here in Niger, our driver, Ibrahim, and his brother Dédé had some serious doubts about some of our basic assumptions about astrophysics (and quality control.) The guy trying to enroll them into our line-building project is Axel, our “traveller” and resident architect.

Ibrahim and Axel disagree about love and women: Axel and Ibrahim kept clashing. Mostly self explanatory, though some of the conversation is in French.

Alkheras: two adjacent large-scale installation pieces about salutation ceremonies among the Tuareg nomads in Niger.

Rain. In this part of Cameroon it rains nine hours a day in the wet season. We went in the dry season when it only rains four hours a day.

Cyclones are getting more and more frequent in the South Pacific

Moo Moo: In Samoa, real men sing.

Fishing: Large scale triptych shot in St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, one of the last places in the U.S. where people still must rely on subsistence hunting and fishing for food. (Other chapters include birding, crabbing, & whaling.)

Jump: An installation including large-scale video projection, trampoline and drums.  Native American Eskimos invented the trampoline. They used split walrus skin hides to jump high so they could see farther out to the ocean – in order to help spot whales.


A small scale video showing what is going on in order to make the jump happen.


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