Louidgi Beltrame’s work is based on documenting modes of human organisation throughout the history of the 20th century. He travels to sites defined by a paradigmatic relation to modernity: Hiroshima, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Chandigarh, Tchernobyl or the mining colony of Gunkanjima, over the sea off Nagasaki. His films - based on the recording of reality and the constitution of an archive - appeal to fiction as a possible way to consider History.

MLagerstätte
2010
Super 8 film transfered in video, 9 min 30 sec, mute, with the participation of Elfi Turpin.


Lagerstätte is situated between the document of experimental archaeology and the movie of tourism. Filmed in summer in an abandoned career (quarry), it shows the extraction of ammonites, the faded subclass Mollusks which we know only in the form of fossils.