The Ocean Is Winning

This three-channel film installation explores the fragile relationship between coastal erosion and human intervention in Dungeness, UK. Through embodied research into the UK Environment Agency’s shingle replenishment scheme – where over 70 lorries transport and redistribute shingle along the coastline each day – the work explores the clashing temporalities of deep geological time and the precarious and urgent effort to sustain a constantly shifting shoreline. Using 3D scans, sound recordings, archival research, and experimental film techniques from time spent attuning to the site, the project engages with the alienating atemporality of the Anthropocene, questioning the denominations of time we are thinking in currently, and how this might impact our ability to think about the climate crisis. The project embraces abstraction while remaining grounded in site-specific research, using documentary and animation, guiding the viewer from a space of information to one of affective engagement. Project team members: Claudia Sanchez, Jessica Wonomihardjo, Britney Lee, Caius Sharpe and Indy Calland.