Topography | Documentary Project
In Production
“Exploring the layered perspectives and histories defining America’s public lands.”
Topography is an ongoing multi-format documentary project that includes films, live-edited performances, interactive experiences, and community collaborations. Set in and around America’s public lands, the project spends time in the Badlands, Death Valley, Fire Island, and Zion.
From paleontologists to medicinal plant experts, rangers to ranchers, motel workers to tourists, environmental preservation to settler colonialism, seaside communities to seemingly desolate badlands - Topography fragments across time, species, scales, and histories to reveal how different perspectives shape the land and its futures.
Various elements of this project are supported by Catapult Documentary Film Fund, Brown Institute Center for Media Innovation, Headlands Center for the Arts Residency and Project Space, McEvoy Family Award for Film/Video, Ken Corday FDM Grow Grant, UCSC, Badlands National Park Arts Residency, Fire Island National Seashore Residency, National Park Arts Foundation.
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This is an ongoing collaboration of Alexander Porter & Hannah Jayanti
Associate Producer | Juan Pedro Agurcia
Consulting Visual Designer | Michele Graffieti