I Am Haunted by Thoughts of What Has Left,
video, 26 min 40 sec, 2022-23
in collaboration with Piotr Blajerski
vimeo.com/820107779/a5e11cc604
"I Am Haunted by Thoughts of What Has Left" is a film by Piotr Blajerski and Jagoda Dobecka, which is a narrative of a person from the distant future, facing museum footage that is a trace of the existence of human civilization thousands of years ago. The archive tells the story of a catastrophe, a radically interrupted continuity where previous technological achievements have lost their functions. Under such conditions, on the ruins of the previous one, a new culture locating itself at the intersection of civilization and the wild natural world is reborn in a random way. The objects left behind by it are as enigmatic to us as they are to future civilizations. With the help of a surviving film tape, a person who is part of the civilization colonizing Earth tries to understand what life was like and the reasons for the disappearance of the native civilization. Their speculative statement, draws attention to imagination as a key tool in shaping the social order. At the same time, an alternative configuration, unfamiliar to our experience, emerges from it, which is a guarantee of their resilience on a cosmic scale.
The project was realized on Wroclaw's Gajowe Hill. The dramatic cyclical nature of falling into ruin and rebirth is inscribed in the history and landscape of the site. The hill was mounded just after World War II from the rubble of the destroyed city. Before that, a German fertilizer factory and one of the first concentration camps in the Third Reich were located on its site. Today it has been overtaken by a pulsating life, going on freely in the presence of human visitors.
video, 26 min 40 sec, 2022-23
in collaboration with Piotr Blajerski
vimeo.com/820107779/a5e11cc604
"I Am Haunted by Thoughts of What Has Left" is a film by Piotr Blajerski and Jagoda Dobecka, which is a narrative of a person from the distant future, facing museum footage that is a trace of the existence of human civilization thousands of years ago. The archive tells the story of a catastrophe, a radically interrupted continuity where previous technological achievements have lost their functions. Under such conditions, on the ruins of the previous one, a new culture locating itself at the intersection of civilization and the wild natural world is reborn in a random way. The objects left behind by it are as enigmatic to us as they are to future civilizations. With the help of a surviving film tape, a person who is part of the civilization colonizing Earth tries to understand what life was like and the reasons for the disappearance of the native civilization. Their speculative statement, draws attention to imagination as a key tool in shaping the social order. At the same time, an alternative configuration, unfamiliar to our experience, emerges from it, which is a guarantee of their resilience on a cosmic scale.
The project was realized on Wroclaw's Gajowe Hill. The dramatic cyclical nature of falling into ruin and rebirth is inscribed in the history and landscape of the site. The hill was mounded just after World War II from the rubble of the destroyed city. Before that, a German fertilizer factory and one of the first concentration camps in the Third Reich were located on its site. Today it has been overtaken by a pulsating life, going on freely in the presence of human visitors.