Enceindre

If the word Enceinte meaning the main defensive enclosure of a fortification is synonymous with the body of the place what does it means to live within a body that is outside of time and without purpose could these places be considered Hetrotopias Or are they as WG Sebald describes alien structures denuded from human history The first collaboration between filmmaker Luke Fowler and acclaimed sound recordist Chris Watson Enceindre is a study in film and sound of two 16th century fortified cities Berwick in the NorthEast of England and Pamplona in the Navarre region of the North of Spain The film considers the wider psychological and social resonances of what it means to live within a town defined by its historical complex of defensive walls and bastions By adopting an infrasensitive approach to place Enceindre draws on overlooked acoustic perspectives and lucid camerawork to propose a new framework in which to consider these anachronistic structures