Time Paradox + Sinking Latitude + Siticulosa
Minha Park, Jiawei Zheng & Maeve Brennan / Republic of Korea (South Korea), Denmark, China & United Kingdom / 85 min
Korean artist Minha Park’s ‘Time Paradox’ explores how museology reconstructs lost worlds – prehistoric landscapes and extinct creatures unseen by human eyes. Guided by the voice of MBR 19, a prehistoric dinosaur, the film juxtaposes reconstructed images, data and archives from colonial times.
Zheng’s video work ‘Sinking Latitude’ considers the underground as both a metaphor and a manifest reality. The town where the story takes place has a history of salt mining dating back more than 2000 years, and generations of inhabitants have passed down a prophetic myth that the city’s underground is hollowed out and that an underground river will one day rise up and engulf the town in an earthquake.
Maeve Brennan’s ‘Siticulosa’ explores the journey that historical artifacts undergo over time, from everyday objects and works of art, to archaeological treasures of high historical and sometimes economic value. Set in Puglia in southeastern Italy, Brennan uncovers a circuit where professionals are up against a criminal underworld.
Time Paradox
Minha Park / Republic of Korea (South Korea) / 2024 / World Premiere / 20 min
The vertebra of a dinosaur becomes the object of a museological time travel, as archaeologists embark on the paradoxical task of recreating a world before humans even existed.
‘Time Paradox’ explores how museological practices reconstruct relics of lost worlds such as prehistoric landscapes and extinct creatures that have never been seen by humans. Guided by the voice of MBR 19 – also known as a Brachiosaurus – Korean artist Minha Park weaves together reconstructed images, restoration data and colonial-era archives into a paradoxical whole that recreates a world without witnesses. The work was created in collaboration with Berlin’s Museum für Naturkunde.
Sinking Latitude
Jiawei Zheng / Denmark & China / 2024 / World Premiere / 20 min
Underground floods threaten a 2000-year-old city where for centuries the inhabitants have told each other myths about the end of their world.
Jiawei Zheng’s video work ‘Sinking Latitude’ is set in a city with a history of salt mining dating back more than 2000 years. Here, generations of inhabitants have passed down a prophetic myth that the city’s underground is eroded by mining and that an underground river will one day rise up and engulf the city when an earthquake strikes. Zheng considers the underground and the flooding as both a metaphor and a manifest reality. The result is a playful collage structured around a dialog between three fictional characters – a puppy, an elderly man and a dinosaur.
Siticulosa
Maeve Brennan / United Kingdom & Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere / 45 min
An archaeological journey to the caves and caverns of Puglia, where a diverse community of professionals - and a criminal underworld - share an interest in historical artifacts.
Maeve Brennan’s ‘Siticulosa’ explores the journey that historical artifacts undergo over time, from everyday objects and works of art, to archaeological treasures of high historical and sometimes economic value. Set in Puglia in southeastern Italy, Brennan uncovers a circuit where both peasants and passionate professionals are pitted against a criminal underworld. In an interdisciplinary investigation with branches into geology, archaeology, and ecology, the film moves around a landscape full of caves and caverns, while an original use of commentary text interjects itself into the objective discourse of the work.