Terminal Island
2024, 13 min, 16mm>Digital

Tracing a space between real and phantasmatic ecological dread, Terminal Island presents a multi-sensory portrait of a landscape in peril, an ambivalent lament for LA’s vanishing palms and a sermon on Doomsday infrastructure delivered to no one.

Terminal Island is a portrait of Paradise Lost. Los Angeles, California is a place of immense beauty and a perfect climate, but it is also a nexus for ecological dread. Smoggy skylines, overdevelopment and the dying off of the iconic (and invasive) LA palm tree are some of the clues that Tinseltown is in trouble.

– Cristina Kolozsváry-Kiss