Divine Dogs, Whispering Stones (2024)
single-channel video, 15’ 30”
showcased at :
V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media during the PZI Graduation Show Currently, Currently, Currently 2024 (Rotterdam);
Re_Nature Festival 2024 (Amsterdam)
Divine Dogs, Whispering Stones — a short, experimental documentary that blends documentary and meditative storytelling to explore the timeless connection between humanity, nature, and divine powers.
Inspired by Lithuanian-American archeologist Marija Gimbutas, the film bends ancient spiritual beliefs, ancestral heritage, and the rhythms of nature, aiming to subtly introduce Gimbutas’ Goddess Religion theory and the old Baltic Religion.
M. Gimbutas proposed that the primal deity for our ancestors was female — a self-generating goddess, giver of life, and wielder of death and regeneration. According to her, the Goddess embodied various aspects of nature — life-giving, nurturing, and destructive forces, that closely connect to the cycles of human birth, death, and regeneration.
Ancient female figurines — especially evocative, with exaggerated reproductive body parts, were previously dismissed by many archeologists as mere objects crafted to entertain prehistoric men. M. Gimbutas challenged these shallow statements, arguing that figurines are powerful symbols of the complex, spiritual world of Old Europe. She believed they represented diverse aspects of the Goddess and her intimate connection with the natural world, challenging the conventional patriarchal views of ancient societies.
