Creatures of the Lines is a film and collaboration between artist Sonia Levy and environmental anthropologist Heather Swanson. It explores how desires for economic growth and linear progress have produced straightened forms in England’s watery terrains and asks what risks are associated with the conversion of its once curvy and braided worlds into linearised landscapes.
Sonia Levy
Sonia Levy‘s inquiry-led practice employs filmmaking as a device for site-based inquiries and interdisciplinary collaborations, fostering multiple perspectives to consider new worlds. Her work queries western expansionist and extractivist logics while tending to critical forms of engagement with more-than-human worlds. Via the cinematic, she probes modernity’s aesthetics and its material consequences, exploring how renewed audio-visual forms might help contest and build new realities. She is the 2022 recipient of the S+T+ARTS4Water residency hosted by TBA21 in Venice and was the 2021 commissioned artist at Radar Loughborough and Aarhus University’s Ecological Globalization Research Group and is currently an Associate Lecturer at The Royal College of Art, London.