✴︎ research
SOFT OCCUPATION (2026) TRAILER
SOFT OCCUPATION
FILM
2026
An artist film and ongoing research project exploring moss species growing across the remains of the Atlantikwall in the Kennemerduinen. Bunkers and concrete structures remain embedded in the dunes as scars of the Second World War, carrying the material and ecological traces of violence, militarisation and human intervention.
Across these wounds, mosses have slowly begun to grow. Rather than erasing what came before, they cover, inhabit and preserve its traces. The moss becomes a living archive: holding moisture, matter and time within its layers, while carrying the history of the surfaces it grows upon. Healing here is not a return to what existed before, but a process of living with, remembering and transforming what remains.
The narrative unfolds through a synthesis of landscape imagery, archival footage, microscopic imagery of mosses, field recordings, and seismic sound recordings, moving between the landscape as it exists today and the histories still embedded within it.
Across these wounds, mosses have slowly begun to grow. Rather than erasing what came before, they cover, inhabit and preserve its traces. The moss becomes a living archive: holding moisture, matter and time within its layers, while carrying the history of the surfaces it grows upon. Healing here is not a return to what existed before, but a process of living with, remembering and transforming what remains.
The narrative unfolds through a synthesis of landscape imagery, archival footage, microscopic imagery of mosses, field recordings, and seismic sound recordings, moving between the landscape as it exists today and the histories still embedded within it.
Cinematography
Microscopy
Editing
Geophysical sound recording
