Altered Zones

"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me." There seems to be a strange synchronicity between Immanuel Kant's description of the sublime, and the video Zahid Jiwa and Miko Revereza co-directed for Julian Lynch's "Ground", from his equally beautiful release, Terra. Staticky, black-and-white shapes-- feedback, Jiwa tells us, from filming a TV screen with a VHS camera-- morph and peel away to reveal an arctic landscape, or perhaps a vortex into a kind of inner cosmos. Surrounded by the blazing colors, the comets in the sky, and the coursing water, we get an immense sense of the sublime, perfectly matching the cathartic and expansive scope of Julian's composition. --Daniel Gottlieb, Visitation Rites

Terra is out now on Underwater Peoples; be sure to check out more videos by Zahid Jiwa and Miko Revereza