This video-installation brings forth the mythological figure of the Raven as its main protagonist. The Raven is used as a leitmotif to speculate about architectural concepts like Stone Tape Theory and Place Memory. Both these concepts hold the idea that some buildings are receptive to the energy produced by traumatic or emotional events, which they record and store. _{‘In the history of arts and popular culture, the raven is a well-known symbol. The dark bird often appears as an omen, a messenger of misfortune, or as an embodiment of spirits from the afterlife. Its disturbing indoor presence shines another light on the domestic environment. Home, supposedly a place of shelter, safety, and comfort, is transformed into an uncanny stage, tainted by decay, haunted by trauma’. –Text by Dominic van den Boogerd}

Produced with support of Dommering Foundation

Credits
Starring: Nanja
Camera: Joao Costa
Camera Assistance: Stína Erlingsdóttir
Production Assistance: Clémence Lollia Hilaire
Second eyes and Editing: Jacob Dwyer
Color Grading: Mayis Rukel
Sound design & mix: Jacob Oostra
Foley: Daimo Da Costa

Special thanks to:
Wouter Mom, Piotr Urbaniec, Tirza Kater, Caroline Brand

Leak shows a destabilisation of a state, seen through the material cycle of evaporation and (dis-)appearance. The installation that houses the film resembles something akin to a weather beaten electrical box, with water damaged panels and sputtering and rusted air conditioning units. The borrowed language of commonly seen and apparently functional containers is subverted and implied a seemingly functional space broken and discarded. Inside, a video portrays an unpredictable body of water whose shifting and uncontrollable state seems to have prevented a disaster from being averted. The towels left lying there, as if hastily abandoned, underscore the absence of water – whose traces, by contrast, will never entirely disappear. _{Text by Fabian Schoneich}