Rosa Barba Inside the Outset: Evoking a Space of Passage, 2021
16mm film transferred to digital and 8k film, sound
Duration: 31:15 min
Inside the Outset: Evoking a Space of Passage is a 16mm film transferred to digital. It was exclusively shot in Cyprus, including underwater shots of the Mazotos shipwreck—the remains of a commercial ship dated to the late classical period and the first underwater archaeological research exclusively conducted by Cypriot institutions—as well as aerial shots of archaeological sites and of the former—now abandoned—Nicosia airport. The film follows Rosa Barba’s artistic approach of examining liminal states which manifest in between contested spaces, both mentally and geographically, in order to offer a new perspective.