inhabitants is an online channel for exploratory video and documentary reporting launched in 2015, in New York. inhabitants produces and streams short-form videos intended for online distribution, with each episode focusing on different themes. For more information and episodes visit:
Website: http://inhabitants-tv.org/
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/channels/inhabitants
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com
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inhabitants has collaborated with institutions such as Haus der Kulturen Der Welt and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin), the Berado Collection Museum (Lisbon) and is currently developing a video series for Contour8 biennale in Mechelen (Belgium). It has also produced and streamed an episode by the artists and filmmakers Filipa César and Louis Henderson, and collaborated with the activist campaign Wages for Facebook. Decades ago, different animals were spliced together to rehearse a filmic exodus, in which looped footage and symphonic pathos were invoked in an escape of elephants, flamingos, monkeys, and birds fleeing from the camera lens. Today, Artavazd Peleshian's nine minute-long film, Inhabitants, abstracted in the low-res Youtube rip, can be read as a preamble to the mass extinctions that haunt contemporary regimes of visibility. But really there is no more a single way to address the problem. Activist campaigning, academic and fiction-writing speculation, artistic expression and documentary reporting are all currencies within sharing platforms. All these modes of address, their concerns and desires, fuel this online channel for exploratory video reporting. Splicing and clicking away — here is Inhabitants.
