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Becoming geological is a speculative quest into a life of earthy sediments of collaboration and care. In this film, I propose and embody the geological human — a speculative being that is both biological and geological that explores the ways they are connected to the earth. 

By studying the earth and its transformations in this time of ecological crisis, I search for the potential to evolve as human in this era called the Anthropocene. 

In fieldwork, they collect rocks and their stories and try to move with the materials of the Earth.

In the film, the geological human starts a conversation with chalk, in search to learn from the Earth how to be a geological being. In the ENCI quarry, they discover a relationship between the limestone walls, the presence of chalk in their bouldering practice, and the chalky dimensions of their bones.

They carry around a holder, inspired by Ursula K Le Guin’s carrier bag. The carrier bag narrative recognizes the essential role of gathering and containing in human history and culture. I explore its potential for a future of geological life, emphasising the significance of gathering, preserving, and sharing. 

This recipient holds the practice of becoming geological, it unfolds into a mediator of the stories of the earth and our interactions. Its wood and cotton reflect the terrain they explore, an in-between space, where soft and solid, body and body, rock and human meet.