The Sky Oscillates between Eternity and Its Immediate Consequences: An Interview with Nadim Choufi

BY HIND MEZAINA

Nadim Choufi’s The Sky Oscillates between Eternity and Its Immediate Consequences is an eighteen-minute film set in a space colony on Earth composed entirely of digitally rendered environments and stock footage. Based on news about the construction of Mars Science City in Dubai, the film addresses how the future of smart cities relies on the promise of “sustainable” closed systems in the face of health and ecological crises. Two protagonists narrate how the control and exploitation of environmental life cycles and organisms become a blueprint to achieve such futuristic visions.