Pantalla Pavelló | Blue Diversity film series: Drift by Helena Wittmann.

On the occasion of the appointment of the city of Copenhagen as World Architecture Capital 2023, the director of the Copenhagen Architecture Festival, Josephine Michau, presents the Blue Diversity film series, which will include films set in seas and oceans in order to talk about their biodiversity, and our current relationship, conception and management of the vital resource of water.

The second film of the series is Drift by Helena Wittmann.

Drift is a mysterious and immersive exploration of the oceanic realm, as depicted through the lens of two nameless protagonists sharing their thoughts and stories about ancient myths and legends of the sea. Through dreamlike sequences and hauntingly beautiful imagery, the film invites us to surrender ourselves to the ebb and flow of the sea and to find new modes of being in its timeless rhythms. Drift is a poetic and sensorial masterpiece, a celebration of the beauty and strangeness of the natural world, and a reminder of our place within it.

In this case, the topics of discussion will revolve around the sea subverting our solid, stable spatial and temporal orientation, its teachings about our terrestrial biases and how can architecture adopt spatio-temporal schemes from the oceanic realm.

You can buy your tickets here. 

Film file

Title: Drift

Director: Helena Wittmann

Year: 2017

Timing: 96′

Place: Germany