A Measure of Distance

An ascent toward a trigonometry station: a fixed geodetic survey point used to stabilise mapped space. Single-channel video, 25:00. Original audio recordings. Slovene. Slovene and English subtitles. Script and voice by Dr Maja Pan.

As the camera tracks movement towards a trigonometry station, a voice in Slovene narrates a series of episodic philosophical and folkloric reflections subtitled in both Slovene and English. These reflections centre on a found object of uncertain status (a possibly bear tooth) found in a karst stream beneath a natural arch and unfolds into a meditation on uncertainty and the limits of knowledge: what can be known, and what remains suspended between being and not being.

The narration moves through geological time, mythic logic, and linguistic conditions, especially the Slovene conditional tense, to stage a field where meaning shifts between what something is and what it might be. As the trig point promises fixed coordinates, the voice insists on drift, the work triangulating between terrain, language, and the limits of certainty.