Networked media technology is changing our relationship to the physical world.

Media and memory are closely intertwined, as memory can be enhanced, corrupted, extended or replaced through filtering, ordering, editing and inscribing past events. We relate to the shaping and preservation of our collective memory in continuously changing ways. In a time when, for many people, public sites increasingly lose their importance as places to visit, gather and contemplate, our relation to monuments is changing. Embodiments of collective memory remain socially relevant, as do our needs for shared acts of remembering. However, the processes of forming collective memories and their monumentalization are changing substantially.

Through the use of narration and found footage, this film explores shifting trends in the way objects, both physical and virtual, are perceived as relevant cultural artefacts. In an essayistic form, observations are issued how we collectively deal with symbols and representations of our shared culture and history.