Framing Territories looks at the One Belt One Road initiative, spanning across Asia, Europe and Africa with an ambition of developing trade routes and a techno-modernist promise of global connectivity. Large-scale efforts along the Belt and Road explicits a data-driven framework to guide the future of environmental decision-making, mirrored by large-scale infrastructural plans to manipulate its landscapes. This would rapidly rescript how we understand and govern environments and populations, co-producing certain natures.

The sun’s photons translate into data by an ecology of recording devices. Registering Solar moves from the scale of photons to ourselves as prosthesis for how the earth senses itself. Time and place specific, here we look at how geocinema is informed not necessarily by events that trigger its attention but rather through the very slow processes of how environments are sensed.

In its vertical dissection, the earth is wrapped by more than 7 million scenes by the Landsat satellites. Following the trajectory of satellites, Editing Worlds turns to the wrapping of the earth through systems of measurement and the synchronisation of data, from models and their tools. While geocinema has long been a method of making sense of where we are in the cosmos—scales of bodies, their movements and tempos, have simultaneously been quantified, controlled and managed unevenly back down on ground.

Episode 04 turns its focus to the geocinematic patterning of attention spans. It tunes in into modern myths of inexplicable phenomena — events that never happened because there were no systems to register it. Cutting across time, the episode jumps through chronological logics to speculate what might exist in-between and beyond modes of sensing operations.