e.g. Forellengut
e.g. Forellengut
2024
4K digital video and animation, color, sound
30:38 min
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e.g. Forellengut is a sensuous exploration of the cultural-economic complex surrounding fishing and its coinciding processes of desire.
Forellengut Herzberger, a family-run fish farm in Oberursel, Germany, uses a Pond Culture system established in the late 1800s. The film e.g. Forellengut follows the labor of the farmers and their meticulous operations while digital animations reveal the fishing lure as a technological form directly determined by the converging desires of the fisherman and the fish.
Using water quality monitors, oxygen probes, and seining systems, the farmers endeavor to confront, manage, and make known the variables involved in their work in order to overcome what is imperceivable. The film, punctuated with these devices, probes questions around their pursuit of empirical knowledge as the sensual reality of the farm overflows them.
The farm’s elements not only result from various desiring processes but also further produce desire themselves; the production of fish is mutually a production of exponential affect. e.g. Forellengut moves as a prolonged follow shot of these ecstatic, desirous processes.
