Isabelle Carbonell

Even in Paradise

Serene forest groves and opaque Silicon Valley windows provide the visual framework for an assumption-challenging essay film taking a critical geography approach toward a new way of seeing the costs of warmaking as they are found in the very flesh of California.

A Mirror of the Cosmos

A Mirror of the Cosmos is a sci-fi documentary exploring how the Mar Menor lagoon, considered a paradise in southeastern Spain, went to the brink of extinction with devastating environmental violence. The moon asks the lagoon: as a mirror of the cosmos, will you adapt?

Exquisite Moving Corpse

The Surrealist, "Exquisite Corpse" was a French Café parlor game. "Exquisite Moving Corpse" is more of an artist chain letter. 60 artists participated over a two-year period, beginning in March 2020. Each invited artist made a one minute video in response to the last frame of the previous minute.

The Blessed Assurance

Every winter off the Georgia coast, fishermen reel in jellyfish from the same waters where shrimp once flourished. The Blessed Assurance is a sensorial documentary experience, a meditation on livelihood exploring both man and jellyfish in the otherworldly ecosystem found on an American trawl boat. Visceral images and sounds immerse us in a primordial world, de-centering the human and even going inside a jellyfish.