An amalgalm of ship’s logs from the deep sea and deep space, “Sunken Treasure” draws us into a journey of exploration that detaches from time and geography, where what is discovered is our own desire for the search. Piloting a boat into the void of a remote water cave in Central Europe, or sinking deep under the Adriatic Sea in scuba gear, the camera sees as if for the first time; experiencing an initial contact. The western narrative of exploration and discovery typified by Jacques Cousteau and the nature documentary genre of the 1970’s provides the historical scaffolding of departure for a voice which plays alternatively with and against the images, opening up meaning and dislocating us from what we see.
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