Utilising eco-acoustics, digital surveying techniques, and situated interviews, After Hours investigates the environmental damage caused by extractive agriculture and desertification in Alentejo, a southern region of Portugal. It focuses on the possibility of ‘nocturnalisation’ in the Mediterranean as a result of these processes, using audio and LiDAR tools to model key environmental conditions. Listening with Alentejo’s inhabitants and embedded within critical sites of change, we begin to sense how the border between day and night is registered, occupied, mobilised, and ultimately becomes a site of environmental struggle.
The film was presented publicly with an accompanying sound installation and book. The final work was awarded the RCA Head of Program Prize and will also be exhibited at the Porto Design Biennale in late 2025.
With thanks to: João Prates Ruivo, George Ridgeway, Pedro Horta, Eva Barrocas, class of Olinda Monteiro, Dinis Cortes, Jose Muño, Claudia Lehmann, Marie Lehmann, Agathe de Canson.
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