Orchard Station Road, 2025
4k video, VHS, hand-processed film, found footage, stereo sound, 30 mins
Score by Ben Stidworthy
Distributed by VIdéographe
Commissioned by MOMENTA Biennial of Contemporary Art 2026
Through a blend of analog film, digital video, found footage, and experimental editing, OK Pedersen explores collective memory and contemporary geopolitical tensions. In Orchard Station Road, she investigates the role of images and media in shaping history, focusing on how social and environmental crises redefine individual and collective narratives. In this personal essay-style film, the narrator reflects on her family’s migration story and her own American dream, when a magnitude 10 solar storm destroys all telecommunication networks and electric grids. She finds herself living in a self-sufficient community in Northern California, building a road to nowhere. By combining fiction and reality, Pedersen deconstructs traditional storytelling, inviting us to lose ourselves in a space where past and future intertwine.
–– MOMENTA
Read about it in Le Devoir and Tank Magazine.
