Lingua Ignota

Overview

During her lifetime 12th-century abbess and mystic Hildegard von Bingen invented a secret language, the lingua ignota, which purpose remains unclear up until today. Taking the idea of visions as a starting point for playing with the filmic image and montage, Lingua Ignota connects a research into the different facets of Hildegard von Bingen’s life - music, plants, language - with an audio-visual diary. Collecting images at Disibodenberg, a former monastery where Hildegard used to live, visiting friends on a Danish Island and seasons changing - the principle of an unknown language connects the images and dictates their order, seeking correspondences between different spaces and temporalities.