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This film involves a journey through a landscape of infrastructures that are common to an everyday reality of routine. Yet here we find these environments are deserted. This allows attention to focus instead on the design and spatial arrangements of the objects, we find the features of these landscapes – which would not usually bear noticing – become centrally present. Infrastructures involves a series of seven tracking shots. A steady flow of objects in various contrived arrangements passes by the eye. The sound design incorporates the subtle noises given off by these ready-to-use sites devoid of users.

Biography Aurèle Ferrier, *1975 in St.Gallen (Switzerland), lives in Zurich. He attained an MA in Fine Arts at Zurich University of the Arts. His video works, actions and interventions explore the limits and connections between nature and civilization. His cinematic works display a calm contemplation and visual precision. Recent shows 2016 Slamdance Film Festival, South Park (US) 2016 Sluice Screens Prize, London (UK) 2015 24th Berkeley Video and Film Festival, Berkeley (US) 2015 Der entfesselte Raum, Gewerbemuseum, Winterthur (CH) 2015 Arquitectura Film Festival, Santiago de Chile (CL) 2015 Reykjavik International Film Festival, Reykjavik, (IS) 2015 Currents, Intlernational New Media Fesival, Santa Fe (US) 2015 Arkipel, Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Jakarta (ID) 2015 Great Lakes International Film Festival, Erie (US) 2015 Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens (GR) Studies 2014 MA Fine Arts, Zurich University of the Arts 2004 BA Leading Artist Theatre, Zurich University of the Arts 2003 Experimental Theatre Exchange, Tisch School, NYU Awards 2015 Winner Berkeley Video and Film Festival, Best Foreign Experimental Film, Berkeley (US) 2015 Winner IndieFEST Film Awards, Award of Merit: Experimental Film, La Jolla (US) 2015 Nominated Sluice Screens Prize, Video Art, Southwark London, (UK) 2010 Studio scholarship, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (FR)