This film collages scrambled CCTV footage (public domain archives) of a Chinese news program featuring new remote sensing and prospecting technologies for finding Rare Earth Element substrates. CCTV footage is used to train AI, whose data centers require elemental extration. The translated captions refer to the “global race to Rare Earths” against an ambiguous background, with sounds of cicada emergence - a bioindicator species for global heating. 

2026 Presented at Bergen Assembly Archival Intelligence: Epistemic Shifts from Sound to Listening