Ode to Invisible (2025) · poetry film · 4:30 min · English with English/Norwegian subtitles · Norway
Ode to Invisible is a poetry film that intertwines poetic reflection with drone footage of a forest under threat from rare earth mining. The work examines the paradox of human progress: our ability to create and destroy, to sustain life and to erode it.
Central to the film is the interplay between nature's fragility and its stubborn insistence on survival. Despite the encroachment of industry, embodied as a humming, insatiable force, the roots persist, and saplings reach for light in the fractures of destruction.
The film is part of the ongoing Extractions project, which examines landscapes shaped by extractive industries and the values we attach to them.
Selected for the International Ecoperformance Film Festival (2025), and the My Name Is Climate Festival (2025)
Available at Labocine.
Director´s Statement
Ode to invisible is about what we see and what we choose not to see. It is a reflection on loss, of the loss of forests, of biodiversity, of the unseen threads that connect life. It’s also about resilience, about the roots that persist, the saplings that push through cracks, the unseen forces that defy erasure.
I believe in the power of the slow, and quiet. Change, for me, is a gradual shift in perception, a process that unfolds over time through reflection, dialogue, and discovery.
Ode to Invisible is an offering, a way to ask questions and create space for new ways of seeing. It invites the audience to look closer, to listen, and perhaps to choose differently. The unseen waits, patient and unyielding. Do we dare to see it?
