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AGRILOGISTICS

Gerard Ortín Castellví
UK/Spain, 2022
21 min

Agrilogistics looks at recent technological transformations in contemporary industrial agriculture, where everything is processed through cameras and data sets. Only at night do things come ‘alive’, when plants, animals and machines form new entanglements.

There is hardly any human to be seen in Agrilogistics. Modern agriculture is now automated and regulated by proxy, with cameras mediating every action. Gerard Ortín Castellví makes a potent and patient study of the medium, exploring the ontological potential and utility these industrial images hold. The cold, mechanised perfection of mass production is interrupted only at night, when, left alone, nature and machines cohabitate in the greenhouses, giving birth to dreamlike imagery of a new type of hybrid Paradise, from which man has willingly exiled himself. (Dora Leu)

Date and Location

27th of September, 21:00, Cinemateca Eforie

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Gerard Ortín Castellví

Gerard Ortín Castellví (b. 1988, Barcelona) is an artist, filmmaker and researcher. After completing an MFA at Sandberg Instituut, he finished an MA in Artists’ Film and Moving Image at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he is currently doing a PhD and teaching at the MA Art & Ecology. He is also a mentor at UCL Creative Documentary by Practice MFA, and a member of the Ecological Reparation project. He has exhibited at Whitechapel Gallery, Fundació Joan Miró, Tabakalera, Stedelijk Museum Buro of Amsterdam. His works have been screened at Anthology Film Archives, Centre Georges Pompidou, LUX, Visions du Réel, Open City Film Festival, Cinéma du Réel, KVIFF, HKIFF and Berlinale.

  • Technical sheet
  • EDITORS: Maddi Barber, Mirari Echávarri, Gerard Ortín Castellví
  • SOUND: Oriol Campi Solé
  • CO-PRODUCER: Vivianne Jorritsma
  • CONSULTING PRODUCERS: Sabine Groenewegen
  • ANIMAL HANDLING: Roel Ruwaard, Nico van der Velden
  • ROBOT OPERATION: Jochen Hemming (Agrofood Robotics, WUR)
  • COLOUR GRADING: Stef Colosi (OK Studio)
  • WITH THE SUPPORT OF: La Capella - BCN Producció 2021
  • WITH THE COLLABORATION OF: Goldsmiths University of London & Wageningen University

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