Add to playlistA portrait of Utopia loosely framed by Plato's invocation of the lost continent of Atlantis in 360 B.C. and its resurrection via a 1970s science fiction pulp novel.
Some say that the island of Malta is a remnant of the lost continent of Atlantis, a contested claim that superimposes the mythic grandeur of a drowned past onto the quotidian existence of a present society. From Plato to pulpy science fiction and into the sea, Atlantis is a search for utopia – and a reflection on the desire for it – that documents place and non-place at once.
