Killing Aliens Everyday: Otherness as Constitutive of an Organized Inside, A Film-based Experiment (17 minutes, Color, HD)

This film explores the extermination of plants that have been classified as invasive aliens in Western Cape, South Africa. Using small cameras and microphones that were attached to trees, plants, worker's tools, such as chainsaws, cutters and clipboards, the relational geographies that make up a distributed killing machine is explored through sound, vibration and vision. The inside of this machine nurtures a certain sense of belonging and community among people involved in "doing the right thing" for the environment, whereas the outside — plants classified as aliens — serves as the foundation for such senses of belonging. Filmed in 2015 it is a contribution in exploring more-than-human geographies as well as sense of belonging and community. It was selected for "Stories of the Anthropocene" organized by KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, The Rachel Carson Centre, CHE UW-Madison and screened at Teater Reflex, Stockholm. (17 minute, essay-film, Color, HD, Stereo). URL: https://vimeo.com/343835799 (If password, ask author.)