Specification

(2025) – Single Channel Film with Stereo Sound, 11min 08sec.

Do Sheep Dream of Electric Ruins? is a poetic exploration of the Derrigimlagh bog, a remote landscape once transformed by technological ambition and now reclaimed by nature. Once the site of Marconi’s pioneering transatlantic wireless station and the crash-landing of the first nonstop transatlantic flight, the bog holds layers of history etched into its soil, water, and ruins.

Through a blend of present-day footage and speculative AI-generated imagery, the film juxtaposes the blackface sheep grazing amidst the remnants of Derrigimlagh with visions of a future where data centers lie abandoned, overtaken by the same quiet rhythms of nature. The sheep, both witnesses and caretakers, weave through these ruins, their movements evoking cycles of extraction, obsolescence, and renewal.

At once playful and reflective, Do Sheep Dream of Electric Ruins? asks what remains when the signals fade, the towers fall, and the infrastructures of empire dissolve—and what it means that the sheep endure, quietly rewriting the land’s history.

Acknowledgements

Made with the use of Adobe Firefly and Kling.AI generative media.

Additional Credits

Additional Music performed by Gary Salomon.