Archiv der Zukunft

In the organizer's words:

• AT 2024
• 92 min
• Director: Joerg Burger
• FSK: from 6 years
• Documentary: Original version with German voiceover and subtitles where applicable

Screenings:

• Thurs., May 22, 2025 - Fri., May 23, 2025 at 5:00 p.m.
• Sun., May 25, 2025 - Mon., May 26, 2025 at 5:00 p.m.
• Wed., May 28, 2025 - Wed., May 28, 2025 at 5:00 p.m.
• Thu, May 29, 2025 - Wed, June 4, 2025 at 8:45 p.m.

Like a tour, ARCHIV DER ZUKUNFT opens up the institution, especially those places that remain invisible during a regular museum visit: Here, a recently deceased lion is brought in for taxidermy or the posture of a dinosaur is adapted to the current state of research; there, the Venus of Willendorf is digitized or a prehistoric grave including cremation is recreated. In between: tweezers, saws, scanners, DNA samples. Curious, inquiring, patient: room by room, handle by handle, the camera captures the action and reveals the tasks, responsibilities and possibilities of a museum layer by layer. With the gaze of an attentive observer, director and cameraman Joerg Burger sketches the museum as a place where the physical craft of the object always goes hand in hand with questions about knowledge constructions and their inherent power relations. The human species - as the supposed observer and knower - is ultimately itself observed in its relationship to animals, nature and history. ARCHIVE OF THE FUTURE shows the museum as a world that is constantly changing: The spectacular archives from thousands of years of nature and human history are constantly re-interrogated in the present through basic research and the museum's living apparatus in order to tell stories in the future.