13’44”

2015
The film relates to the observation that memory is inextricably connected with economy.
The title is from Aristotle’s Politics, which argues that it is unnatural for money to earn interest because “Money exists not by nature but by law.” In focus are images of emergency money printed in the 1920s. These banknotes, used during periods of economic depression in informally-organised enclaves such as ghettos, concentration camps or colonies, are visually dramatic and charged with revanchist propaganda of the inter-war period. The softly-coloured bills conjure up another era, one whose fatal imperial projects helped lay the foundations for our own welfare society.