Unter dem Asphalt
liegt der Wald

The collective film project Unter dem Asphalt liegt der Wald (Beneath the Asphalt, the Forest) is an exploration of lived solidarity, non-linear time and the search for home. A field of experimentation in which powerful narratives are challenged and relationships are renegotiated – our relationships to each other, to ourselves and to non-human life.

Glimpses

This film is a work in progress and we don’t have an official trailer yet.

But you can already watch selected scenes! These are part of our Visual Intervention project: a publication in the Journal of Human Geography that combines film footage with empirical research.

Find more information here

About us and the project

We, Eileen and Elena, met in Lützerath in the late summer of 2022. We both lived there for a while and worked on two different yet quite similar research projects: one artistic and one scientific. During hours of conversations on tree house roofs, at the edges of coal mines and around campfires at night, we noticed how we approached similar questions in different, zet complimentary ways. The idea of a joint project quickly emerged. Initially buried by the hustle and bustle of the eviction and other life questions, we recently began to foreground this project again.

Lützerath is more than a place – it is a movement. A movement of bodies, memories, emotions. Emotion – from emovere – movement that arises in contact with others, in the encounter with the land, with the air, with the voices that linger and disappear here.
-EILEEN