Stone Tapes Ep.1, Ena Podgorac (2026)
graduation 2026 master film
NL
16’42”
met Engeltalige titels
Een film van Ena Podgorac – Szaga Lauwers – Ken Verhoeven
EN
16’42”
with English text
The first episode of the Stone Tapes-series is an audiovisual research of the pseudoscientific Stone Tape Theory, which claims that stones can absorb events from their surroundings into their material. This ambiguous theory pushes scientific techniques like microscopy and cartography into abstraction. Archival images and geophone recordings represent these place-memories as material residue of past events. Exploring the stone formations filmed in Wallonia, Belgium, demands the viewer’s active participation. In turn, the observer becomes the stone tape’s player.