Was das Wasser erzählt

2018-2026

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“I am the heron”. The voice of a woman recounts an extraordinary encounter with a heron by a stream. Is it a dream, a hallucination, fatigue due to overwork? Was das Wasser erzählt follows the course of a stream, drawing attention to human and more-than-human presences that often remain invisible and unheard. Listening to murmuring waters, the film reveals how rapid urban expansion on the outskirts of Zurich is covering ancient marshes, threatening to destroy wildlife forced into proximity and coexistence with human beings, displacing inhabitants from times immemorial, or already forgotten, and erasing their imperceptible traces.

Was das Wasser erzählt turns to film as a medium through which to hear the voices and inherent language of water. Through a change of viewpoint, it becomes possible to apprehend water as a place where ecosystems come together. Encouraging a radical decentring, the film proposes a change of perception that reveals fragile multi-species worlds and cohabitations. This shift invites us to reflect on the colonisation of natural areas that mankind has carried out over the ages, polluting waters and imposing on flora and fauna its arbitrary classification of life, its disregard, its violence.

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