Rosa Barba

The short film Waiting Grounds shows an abandoned military test site in the Californian Mojave Desert. A relic from the forties, when the US Army used this place for bombing tests and military simulations, this military camp lies forgotten in the middle of the desert, now covered with graffiti and deteriorated by sand and erosion. Waiting Grounds freezes the buildings in a moment of suspension, fallen out of time. The notes prolong the agony of the ruin while simultaneously putting emphasis on its hovering state between construction and destruction, between immobility and potential catastrophe.