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The Mountain Speaks to the Sea documents Tekla Aslanishvili’s experimental film trilogy, which looks into regimes of infrastructural governance by examining how ports, railways, and smart city projects act as technologies of citizenship and sovereignty. 

Images of distant geographies are connected with future orientations, exploring the disruptive impacts of large-scale energy and transit projects on the ecologies of the South Caucasus. 

The publication focuses on the history and potentiality of moving images in the making and unmaking of infrastructures. By zooming in and out on the grand narratives of infrastructural development, it assembles fragmented (hi)stories of people who live and work around sites of transit and extraction, sabotaging material systems to challenge violent practices of statecraft.

Positioned between artist’s book and reader, The Mountain Speaks to the Sea features contributions from writers and scholars in visual culture, political science and critical geography, and examines how film can be translated into printed matter.

The Mountain Speaks to the Sea is edited by Tekla Aslanishvili and Silvia Franceschini, with contributions by Alexandra Aroshvili, Ifor Duncan, Silvia Franceschini, Evelina Gambino, and Timothy Mitchell.