Bergen Kunsthall X BIFF Lokal Filmvisning: Underland

What lies beneath our feet? In collaboration with Bergen International Film Festival (BIFF LOKAL), Bergen Kunsthall presents the documentary Underland in connection with the exhibition “Iter Subterraneum.”

The exhibition takes its starting point in Ludvig Holberg’s Niels Klim’s Underground Travels and examines the subterranean as more than a place of darkness and fear: as infrastructure, archive, ecology, and speculative space. Underland expands on these questions through a poetic cinematic journey down into hollows, caves, laboratories, and hidden landscapes beneath the earth’s surface.

We know so little of the world beneath our feet. To most, it is a place of fear and darkness, though to a brave few, it is one of knowledge and wonder to be found nowhere else. Based on the bestselling book by Robert Macfarlane, Underland is a cinematic documentary that explores worlds rarely glimpsed by the human eye. Beginning in the shallow soils beneath an old ash tree, we travel alongside several “astronauts of the underworld” into ancient sacred caves, flooded storm drains, melting glaciers, underwater burial chambers, and a deep underground laboratory built to solve the mysteries of the Universe. Narrated by Oscar-nominated Sandra Hüller, and with a uniquely poetic approach, Underland is a deep dive into the Earth that ultimately presents a groundbreaking vision for rethinking our lives on this fragile surface.

The film will be screened at Landmark, with the bar open before and during the screening.