SYNOPSIS

A gigantic excavator is like a hungry beast swallowing earth, coal and lignite. It is located at the bottom of a city-sized hole. On the edges of the hole, archaeologists are slowly discovering an ancient Roman town. While digging in different ways, at different paces, for different purposes, these two localities are living in some kind of symbiosis in which both of them are portals to different civilizations. They are having an eternal dialogue about the past, present and future while humans and machines are digging soil inside of them.

INTENTION

I was hoeing the garden when I found a buried treasure! I was in shock until I remembered that it was me who buried that treasure at the age of six. Now, I cannot stop thinking that I have maybe buried something else somewhere, and then forgotten. Why are we digging? What can we discover by digging? How many things are underground that will never be found? These are just some of the questions that bothered my soul ever since I found my plastic pirate treasure.

Viminacium Archeological Center and Kostolac Mine are two things my hometown Požarevac is famous for. I always knew about their existence. But the moment I saw them from a plane, my perception completely changed. From above, they looked like giant abstract artwork, beautiful and scary at the same time. This reminded me of my treasure and the idea for the film came.

This short observational documentary will consist of long static shots portraying the everyday routine of workers and machines on both sites. The film will start as a social study, but by the end, I would like to take the audience to a cinematic journey in which earth is the main character, and earth is able to go beyond perception of time and space that is known to humans.