RECORD OF THE TERMITE LANDSCAPE

Film / Video

Video │ 2-channel │ HD (4:3) │ 17’00″ │ color │ stereo │ 2024

By combining newly-recorded and archival material, doplgenger reconsiders representation of the “deep history” of minerals, as well as representation of the political history of the 20th Century. Record of the Termite Landscape is a video essay in which the authors observe images of socialist miners of the past and compare this past with the hidden representation of mining in capitalist society through placing scenes of modern mining and the archival educational TV programme from the “Anticolonial Struggle” series. By questioning the materiality of their own approach and position, the authors attempt to penetrate the future horizon outside media spectacle, simultaneously questioning images of the past. With its very title, the work evokes the eponymous poetry collection by Yugoslav revolutionary surrealist Oskar Davičo, in which the poet attempts, through an artistic action and by poetic attempts to create new relations, phenomena and things, or – by dissolving existing ones – to imbue them with a new sense and meaning.