De_American/Landscape

Video installation with six screens arranged as a semi-circle where people must step in the center to see them. Recorded during Memorial Day weekend in Miami Beach, it shows idyllic palm trees and beach landscapes that are cut by war planes passing through them. The installation also functions as a sound piece where the ambient sound of the beach is disrupted by the alarming noise of jet engines reminding us of the true agenda for these machines. To kill more people faster. Throughout the loop, people can be seen, walking and ignoring the war planes or recording them as spectacle with phones showing how the original purpose of these machines are lost. At the end of the video, I repeat on all six screens footage of an enormous police control tower with CCTV cameras that sits in the middle of these beach goers, and then five war planes pass behind them, completely turning the beach landscape into a now dystopian one where all traces of the idyllic beach and leisure vanish.