Vertical Remains by Aadi Bhandari | CAN | 12'

Time ascends as history sinks. Through thirty-two upward-tilting shots across the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada, Vertical Remains excavates regional histories of Indigenous presence, colonial violence, and ecological transformation. As images shift from color to monochrome and sound descends against the camera’s rise, chronology collapses. Archival images, composite landscapes, and a descending sonic register unsettle linear narration, reframing the present as accumulated residue, and the land emerges as an unresolved archive, where history persists vertically beneath contemporary space.