The Depth Beneath, The Height Above consists in an exploration of the high alpine region of Robiei, southern Switzerland. Conceived as a sensory piece, the film particularly focuses on the existing relationships between the humans, animals, infrastructural and natural elements that compose Robiei’s specific landscape. Through a juxtaposition between the aesthetics and activities that takes place above – the continuous stream of water, the movement of animals, the processes of production of cheese – and respectively below the ground level – the mechanisms, machines and technologies involved in the hydroelectric production, as well as the humans interacting with them -, the film seek to grasp the natureculture and multispecies assemblages through which Robiei and many other contemporary Swiss alpine landscape are being produced.
The Depth Beneath, The Height Above is a sensorial exploration of the relationships between the cultural and natural elements composing the landscape of the high alpine region of Robiei, Southern Switzerland.
Andrea Bordoli
Andrea Bordoli has a background in Visual Anthropology (MA, University of Manchester), Visual Arts – Cinema (BFA, HEAD – Genève), and Anthropology and Philosophy (BA, Neuchâtel University). Combining anthropological research and audiovisual media practice, his work explores human-environment relationships and multispecies entanglements in sensitive and remote territorial ecologies. His works have been presented in academic settings and exhibited in film festivals and art spaces nationally and internationally.