
Rick Prelinger
Lost Landscapes 02021
LOST LANDSCAPES 02021 radiates out from San Francisco, extending its archival gaze to the infrastructures, people and landscapes of California north, south, east and west. Made from newly rediscovered images of San Francisco, cities and towns, and places throughout California where nature and culture meet, 02021's show fixed on the history of our state's resources and the backbones that have made it work: transportation, extraction, communication, travel and labor.
California's many peoples, communities and histories all intersect in a panoramic poem documenting the past and suggesting possible futures in an age of climate and seismic uncertainty. As with all LOST LANDSCAPES events, the audience made the soundtrack, with the crowd identifying people, places and events, posing questions to one another and to the host, and engaging in spirited conversation throughout the run of the film.