Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan: Project Arts Centre.

Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan's film installation Monument to Another Man's Fatherland, 2008, is dominated by a large 35-mm projector, situated in the center of the gallery rather than hidden in a soundproof projection booth. While the workings of this machine are therefore audible as well as visible, the film it projects--a fine-grained monochromatic journey across a montage of the richly detailed surfaces of a sculptural relief--is silent. The images document a well-known monument depicting a gigantomachia, or struggle between gods and giants, built to celebrate a battle between the Celts and the Pergamum Kingdom in 166-67 BC. At the end of the nineteenth century, this …