IPIHAN #8 Documentary

During a five-week residency in an abandoned building in Altenburg, Germany, I documented the artists, architecture and evolving exhibition process surrounding IPIHAN #8.

Rather than approaching the project as a conventional documentary, the work focused on atmosphere, process and spatial presence. Inspired by films such as Koyaanisqatsi, sound functioned as the narrative voice throughout the piece.

The final soundtrack combined field recordings captured within the building with composed material and sonic interpretations of the artists’ processes and the spaces they inhabited, resulting in a fifty-minute audiovisual portrait of the residency and exhibition.