2025
duration: 19 min. 22 sec.
cinematography: Kajetan Deja / Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences in Sopot, Bogna Burska

The video presents underwater images stretched into the form of clock faces, in which moving objects function as hands indicating time – not linear time, but time that is shifting and fluid. Before digital clocks were invented, time was represented through movement in space: the movement of the hands of sundials, lunar clocks, and mechanical clocks. The installation reveals the beauty and fragility of Arctic ecosystems, while also recalling the climate changes that threaten them, and conveys a strong sense of the deeply subjective experience of time.

The video materials were recorded at depths of several hundred metres by Kajetan Deja during research cruises of the Oceania, the research vessel of the Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Bogna Burska took part in an Arctic voyage on board the vessel at the end of August 2025, and her recordings complemented the video material.