Whole Wall Films

Erik Blinderman
Lisa Rave ©

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3. Using various levels
 of imagery, the essay film Europium draws connections between Papua
 New Guinea's colonial past and the planned excavation of raw materials from the Bismarck Sea.  The film weaves a narrative around the rare earth element Europium; named after the European continent, the material will be culled from the ocean floor to ensure brilliant color
 images on smartphone displays and other flat screens, and of course
 for its fluorescent property, which is used to guarantee the
 authenticity of euro bank notes. The film describes this seemingly 
mundane fact as a return and repetition of history, pointing in the
 process not only to the complexity of human culture, its economies and 
systems of exchange, but also exposing the invisible ghosts of the 
past as they appear in the modern objects of our lives.   

-Philipp Kleinmichel

4. Europium

   21 min

   HD

   2014

   A film by Lisa Rave

   Voiceover: Hanne Lippard

   Written by Lisa Rave with Erik Blinderman

   Assistance: Anna Vetter

   1st camera: Nicola Hens

   2nd camera: Erik Blinderman

   Camera  Operator: Moritz Fehr

   Sound editing: Christian Obermaier

   Color grading: Moritz Fehr

   Produced by Whole Wall Films

5. Production funded by:

   Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein

   Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn

   Videokunst Förderpreis Bremen

   Akademie Schloss Solitude

6. Additional links and publications:

   http://www.vdrome.org/lisa-rave-europium

   http://moussemagazine.it/heidi-ballet-stefanie-hessler-oceanic-ways-2017/

   http://revue-magazine.net/wp-content/leseprobe/REVUE-15-Leseprobe.pdf

   http://www.taz.de/