ANALOGICA SELECTION 15 - 2025

INDEX 2
by Zac Tomé
16mm / 2025 / Australia / 5’
PERPETUAL DISORDER by João Carlos Pinto
Both symbols of modernity, cinema and trains are often likened to one another for their capacity to abstract space and time. 'Index 2' takes a trip from Amsterdam to The Hague by train, shot from the train, and then a return trip by foot and bicycle told through what is passed: overgrown weeds, the abandoned, and concrete structures. 
Through the use of phytograms (imprinting plant matter, picked up between the two locations, onto negatives), the film attempts to revisit early ideas around cinema as a means of preserving life whilst suggesting modernity’s relationship to environmental degradation. It focuses on what manages to endure these conditions and what may remain when we are eventually gone.
Zac Tomé is a filmmaker living in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia). His filmmaking is interested in the intersection between the histories of place and how that reveals itself in contemporary everyday-lived experience through experimental and narrative forms.