Siticulosa (2025)
Maeve Brennan · 45 min
Siticulosa screens once in London: BFI Southbank, Thursday 24 September at 18:00.
Where to watch it
BFI Southbank
Belvedere Rd, Waterloo, London SE1 8XT
Siticulosa + Maeve Brennan in conversation with art critic Isobel Harbison
What it is
Siticulosa’s multidisciplinary research considers the relationship between archaeology, geology and agriculture in the Puglian landscape. “Parched” or “very dry”, as in Horace’s description of the region (Siticulosa Apulia), continues to be an accurate description of the dominant conditions that allow for the appearance of crop marks to indicate the presence of archaeological sites beneath. The film is a study of a territory, and the marks and wounds that it bears of a history of pillage, but also a portrait of the people that inhabit it (farmers, antique dealers, amateur archaeologists, local historians) and their symbiotic relationship to the landscape.