No Significant Impact looks at what happens when a landscape enters a decision-making process but cannot speak in the terms required of it. The film stages a fictional hearing where the landscape is treated as a witness, and its responses appear through sound, weather, vegetation and interruption rather than verbal testimony.
The film is an artistic response to the language and culture of bureaucratic assessment. I wanted to explore how public documents, maps and thresholds can produce an appearance of neutrality while also narrowing what can be heard, seen, understood, communicated, valued or acted upon.
The film is part of the ongoing Extractions project.
Director´s Statement
NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT looks at what happens when a landscape enters a decision-making process but cannot speak in the terms required of it. The film stages a fictional hearing where the landscape is treated as a witness, while its responses appear through sound, weather, vegetation and interruption rather than verbal testimony.
The work is an artistic response to the language and visual culture of bureaucratic assessment. I wanted to explore how public documents, maps and thresholds can produce an appearance of neutrality while also narrowing what can be heard, seen, understood, communicated, valued or acted upon.
The film is about how nature, local experience and uncertainty are processed by bureaucratic systems, and what remains outside of the official records.
