Intruders

In an elongated pan, mountain landscapes and misty images of animals are presented in an ethereal, ghostly way. Locus uses found footage black and white photographs of UFO observations from the 1950s and 60s. The UFOs are removed from these photos to seamlessly merge the remaining landscapes. Unforeseen animal death, often reported in UFO sightings, serves as a metaphor for human influence on nature. Intruders explores the boundary between science fiction and reality, investigating themes of reverse colonization, ecology, and human environmental impact.

Spanning the mediums of experimental film, photography, and sound, his work often revolves around landscape as a tool in the creation of national and social identities, landscapes altered by extraction and industrialization.

His films have been shown at film festivals such as Asolo Art Film Festival (IT), Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (DE), Crossroads, San Francisco (US), Underneath the Floorboards, Media Art/ Experimental Film, London (UK), FIFA, Montreal (CA), IFFR Rotterdam (NL), Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (FR/DE) and ANTIMATTER [Media Art], Victoria (CA) among others.

His photography and film installations have been seen in art centers such as IKLECTIK Art Lab, London (UK), De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL), Fiber Festival, Amsterdam (NL), Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg (LU), In-Sonora, Madrid (ES), Cinematheque Museum of Modern Art, Rio De Janeiro (BR), ARGOS, Brussels (BE) and FOMU, Antwerp (BE) among others. Jan Locus lives and works in Brussels.