SPRAWL: The American Landscape in Transition
A nonlinear documentary on suburban expansion and the American landscape as mediated interface.
SPRAWL began from a question about the American landscape: what happens when a built environment becomes a system of navigation, consumption, displacement and belief? I approached suburban expansion as a spatial and informational condition, using panoramic imaging, video, text, geography and interface as a way to move through the problem.
The work is a hyperdocumentary rather than a linear film. It uses the logic of the web and the map to move through physical and ideological space. Roads, subdivisions, retail zones, fragments of interview and panoramic views form an argument about how landscape is organized and how it organizes us in return.
SPRAWL remains connected to later projects such as Googled Earth, AR works and Confinement Spaces. Across these works, space is never neutral. It is captured, rendered, authored and made legible through systems that carry politics inside them.