Event

Friday, 3 October 2025, 18:30 pm

Deep Time – Oceans & Documentary Visions in a Changing Climate

Screening The Deep – Underwater Cinema

Film screening as part of the Julian Charrière exhibition
Free admission, no booking required


To accompany the exhibition Julian Charrière. Midnight Zone, Museum Tinguely presents a programme of underwater films. On four evenings, each with its own theme, visitors can look forward to scintillating cinematic deep dives between science and fiction, introduced and curated by the media theorist, curator and writer Matthias Wittmann (Basel/Mainz/Vienna).

 

Deep Time – Oceans & Documentary Visions in a Changing Climat

To climate-concerned nature film-makers, the ocean deeps have long since ceased to be a byword for ‘unspoiled wilderness’ and now bear the scars of destructive human interventions. Our theme night will therefore show the transformation of the world’s oceans as reflected in recent documentaries, ranging from the experimental to the filmic essay and selected episodes from documentary series.

 

18:30 pm: Part I
What is Deep Sea Mining? – Episodes 2 & 5: Deep Frontiers / The Pacific Precedent (Inhabitants Online Channel, 2018-2022, 2 x 7 Min., EN)
Europium (D 2014, R: Lisa Rave, 20 Min., EN)
We are Ocean (D 2019, R: Lisa Rave, 16 Min., DE)
The Future is Wild – Episode 7: Flooded World (GB/USA/D/AUT 2002, Joanna Adams/Victoria Coules, 25 Min., EN)
20:20 pm: Part II
Our Oceans – Episodes 2 & 5: Indian Ocean / Southern Ocean (Netflix-Dokuseries 2025, 2 x 60 Min., EN, presented by Barack Obama)

 

Snacks and drinks can be purchased during the event.

 

Also part of the event series:

 

17.10.2025, 18:30 pm
>> Inner space – deep-sea obsessions & spectacular cinema

 

 

Image caption: Filmstill Ama-San (PT/CH/JP 2016, R: Cláudia Varejão), Copyright ©Vinca Film, Mira Film


Julian Charrière. Midnight Zone
11 June - 2 November 2025

Julian Charrière. Midnight Zone

A core concern of French-Swiss artist Julian Charrière is how human beings inhabit the world and how the world, in turn, inhabits us. The comprehensive solo exhibition at Museum Tinguely presents photographs, sculptures, installations and new video works that deal with our relationship to Earth as a world of water—a liquidity that covers most of our planet with seas, lakes and ice, both habitat for a myriad of organisms and host to circulatory systems critical for the stability of our climate. Reflecting upon its flow and materiality, profundity and politics, its mundane and sacral dimensions, the solo show acts as a kaleidoscope, inviting us to dive deep.


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