Expanded Cinema Exhibition / 2024 / Galleria Huuto IV Helsinki

‘Dictionary of Darkness’ is looking into the official Department of Defense (DoD) lexicon of military terms through the planetary perspectives of ecological conflict. Studying the role of current armed struggles within wider environmental warfare, it contrasts its vocabulary with views from disputed frontiers, contested areas and colonies (past and present).
Questioning the logic that drives the development of technologies that militarize nature, dominate the wild and domesticate it to the point devastation, ‘Dictionary of Darkness’ focuses on the technically detached language that propagates this process.

Original music by Finkelbert, Crystal & Anker / Supported by the Kone Foundation.