Radial Drift — doraramljak

Radial Drift

Short film
(2025)
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Radial Drift is a short film examining how systems built to preserve life often produce exclusion. It traces the boundaries between bodies, infrastructures, and environments, exploring how matter circulates through them, and how identity forms in the space between intake and expulsion.

Moving through themes of transformation, decay, and renewal, the film uses metabolism as a framework to question dominant separations between nature and culture, organic and synthetic, self and other. Through filtration systems, architectural divisions, and biological processes, it reveals how even waste bears the imprint of societal values.

Shot at an algae farm, where organic growth and engineered systems converge, the film examines how life is managed, filtered, and optimized, exposing the infrastructures that regulate not only water and energy, but also bodies, labor, and desire.

In this space of cultivated growth and controlled decay, the film questions the systems we build to sustain life — and what they exclude in doing so. It asks what it means to exist within networks that seek purity, when life itself depends on entanglement, excess, and regeneration.

Developed during my residency at V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam.
Second Award, Ivan Kožarić Award 2025 — part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb.