A Hymn for Harmony
A Hymn for Harmony is a speculative film that stages a vegetal–human symbiosis in which plants grow from and as skin. The work examines how value is assigned within ecological systems, questioning the hierarchical separation between human consciousness and the molecular life that constitutes planetary matter. Rather than positioning the body above nature, the film imagines a future in which organism and environment are materially entangled.
The visual world presents plant forms composed of human skin, proliferating as hybrid growths that unsettle distinctions between interior and exterior, subject and habitat. Through this speculative morphology, the work proposes an ecology in which extraction and dominance give way to reciprocity and co-dependence. Skin, typically understood as boundary, becomes a site of exchange.
The film is structured as a choral hymn performed in glossolalia — a language without fixed semantic meaning. These vocalisations function not as narrative exposition but as vibration and collective utterance, evoking ritual without doctrinal clarity. By suspending conventional language, communication shifts from assertion to resonance. In doing so, the work attempts to imagine forms of relation that operate beyond control, hierarchy, or ownership.
Through this speculative convergence of plant, body, and voice, A Hymn for Harmony reframes consciousness not as an exceptional trait, but as one condition within a shared and interdependent organism.