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AVARITIA \u2013 IN THE FOREST OF MEMORIES<\/h2>\n

Slovenia \u00b7 2021\u20132022<\/strong>
\nAudiovisual film \/ ecological art project<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

DESCRIPTION<\/h3>\n

Avaritia \u2013 In the Forest of Memories<\/strong> is an audiovisual project exploring greed, memory and the fragile relationship between human beings and nature.<\/p>\n

The forest becomes more than a landscape. It is a space of memory \u2014 a silent witness to human presence, intervention and disappearance.<\/p>\n

The project moves between intimate reflection and a broader ecological perspective. Personal memory, collective history and the natural environment gradually merge into a single visual and sonic space.<\/p>\n

At its centre lies the question of what remains after human desire has passed through a place.<\/p>\n

CONCEPT<\/h3>\n

The title Avaritia<\/strong> refers to greed \u2014 not only as the desire for material possession, but as a broader impulse to dominate, consume and transform.<\/p>\n

Against this stands the forest.<\/p>\n

Slow, persistent and seemingly silent, it carries traces of what has happened within it.<\/p>\n

The project explores the tension between these two forces: human desire and natural time.<\/p>\n

Memory becomes embedded in landscape.
\nThe landscape becomes a witness.
\nSilence becomes a form of testimony.<\/p>\n

SOUND & IMAGE<\/h3>\n

Original music and moving image form a continuous audiovisual composition.<\/p>\n

Sound does not merely accompany the images. It creates another layer of memory \u2014 sometimes present, sometimes distant, sometimes almost disappearing into silence.<\/p>\n

The visual language moves between the physical reality of the forest and a more poetic, metaphysical perception of landscape.<\/p>\n

Rather than explaining the subject directly, the work creates a space in which image, sound and memory can coexist.<\/p>\n

THEMES<\/h3>\n

Greed and consumption
\nNature and human intervention
\nMemory and loss
\nEcology
\nCollective and personal history
\nSilence
\nLandscape as archive<\/p>\n

PRESENTATION<\/h3>\n

The project was developed during 2021\u20132022<\/strong> and was presented in connection with Kamfest<\/strong> and the 9th Festival of Independent Video Production<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

CREDITS<\/h3>\n

Concept & Music:<\/strong> Simon Skalar
\nProject:<\/strong> Avaritia \u2013 In the Forest of Memories<\/em>
\nMedium:<\/strong> Audiovisual film
\nYear:<\/strong> 2022
\nCountry:<\/strong> Slovenia<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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