s emsaki

moon city 2019

three-channel video installation
6 minutes (looped)

moon city is a three-channel video installation set in an unnamed, fictional port city shaped by petrochemical infrastructure and coastal landscapes, where industrial and coastal imagery circulate without geographic markers. Two vertical, kaleidoscopic video channels run in parallel, using mirrored industrial and coastal imagery. Between them, a third channel presents slow-moving text on a red field that moves across the installation.

Through the interplay of moving image, text, and memory, the installation offers a fragmented portrait of a city suspended between industrial spectacle and lived experience. moon city asks how stories survive amid silenced histories—what remains in the wake of refusal, and what is passed on.

threads:
of petra & alchemy, becoming other rather than more true [to self]
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