A Measure of Distance

Single-channel projection (16:9), 25:00. Original audio recordings. Slovene. Slovene and English subtitles. Scripted and voiced by Dr Maja Pan.

A view towards trigonometry station, a fixed geodetic survey point used to stabilise mapped space, as the sun rises.

As the camera presents the illumination of a trigonometry station, a voice in Slovene narrates a series of episodic philosophical and folkloric reflections subtitled in both Slovene and English. These reflections describe an object of uncertain status (possibly a bear tooth) found in a karst stream beneath a natural arch. The story is 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, where meaning shifts between what something is and what it might be.

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