FILMPREMIERE: Dokumentarfilm "ARCHIV DER ZUKUNFT" mit Gästen

Bonn premiere of the documentary film "ARCHIVE OF THE FUTURE" by Joerg Burger.

Followed by a discussion with Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernhard Misof (Director Museum Koenig and Director General Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change).

In cooperation with the Museum Koenig Bonn and the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change.

Like a tour, ARCHIV DER ZUKUNFT opens up the institution, especially those places that remain invisible during a regular museum visit: Here, a recently deceased lion is brought in for taxidermy or the posture of a dinosaur is adapted to the current state of research; there, the Venus of Willendorf is digitized or a prehistoric grave including cremation is recreated. In between: tweezers, saws, scanners, DNA samples.
Curious, inquiring, patient: room by room, handle by handle, the camera captures the action and reveals the tasks, responsibilities and possibilities of a museum layer by layer. With the gaze of an attentive observer, director and cameraman Joerg Burger sketches the museum as a place where the physical craft of the object always goes hand in hand with questions about knowledge constructions and their inherent power relations. The human species - as the supposed observer and knower - is ultimately itself observed in its relationship to animals, nature and history.

ARCHIVE OF THE FUTURE shows the museum as a world that is constantly changing: The spectacular archives from thousands of years of natural and human history are constantly re-interrogated in the present through basic research and the museum's living apparatus in order to tell stories in the future.