Mihovil Nakic
Keywords: Airport culture, Data, Infrastructure
Internship: Bureau of Operational Landscapes, Donald Weber
Golden Hour looks at one of the busiest aviation hubs in Europe as a potential model of the future that has been planned on our behalf, posing a question whether this anticipated future might have already arrived. Fiction becomes an instrument that transcends barriers and access limitations while technology is put forth as means of interaction that has the potential to demystify this entangled space deemed to be of critical infrastructural significance. The project follows a number of characters that have devised a set of seemingly strange methods and devices to search for truth.
Infrastructure is a prediction: planned well ahead of time and built to anticipate and shape behavior before the red ribbons are cut. Airport culture, in turn, is the social choreography of the non-place, shaped to fit the predesigned mold. Golden Hour approaches Schiphol, one of Europe’s busiest aviation hubs, as a physical and imaginary space where data-driven governance has been mapped into the territory and tries to decode airport culture by looking at stories that move through physical and informational geography.
In the short film, fiction opens the space that documentation cannot enter, while technology becomes a means to interact with and demystify a space of critical infrastructural significance. Expecting inevitable darkness, Golden Hour sifts through piles of data obsessively collected by a handful of individuals who use technology in unconventional ways to feed their databases driven by the suspicion that the data knows more than can be told.
