Shaken Grounds, Shifting Skies

After the screening there will be a talk with Nikolaus Gansterer, Mariella Greil, Victor Jaschke and Werner Moebius.

Free entry

About the short film
Shaken Grounds, Shifting Skies is a short film that traverses the volatile terrains of Campi Flegrei, Mount Vesuvius, Vulcano Island in Italy, and the retreating Pasterze glacier in Austria, interweaving these landscapes with scenes from the art studio and reflective questions. Through this constellation of film fragments, the work meditates on how seismic shifts in the external environment resonate within the human body and psyche.
As the narrative unfolds, it shifts focus to seismic zones, where tectonic instability is no longer purely natural but increasingly shaped by human activity: climate change, groundwater extraction, mining, and waste.
Created by the artist collective Shaken Grounds, this film investigates how art can register and respond to the deep entanglements between humanity and a destabilized Earth. Shaken Grounds, Shifting Skies offers a poetic journey through landscapes that are at once ancient and contemporary, challenging viewers to reconsider where—and how—we find ground when the very crust beneath us is trembling.
In artistic and scientific dialogue with: Valerio Acocella, Oscar Fernandez, Sabine Folie, Helga Franza, Nicolas Freytag, Sylvia Scheidl, Kaloyan Vasev, VestAndPage, Sandro de Vita and Mauro di Vito

Supported by the Austrian Ministry of European and International Affairs, the Austrian Cultural Forum, Rome, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the office of the Tyrolean State Government, Department of Culture, and the Angewandte Performance Lab, University of Applied Arts Vienna

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