Siticulosa explores the journey that historical artefacts undergo over time, from everyday objects and works of art, to archaeological treasures of high historical and sometimes economic value. Set in Puglia in southern Italy, Brennan uncovers a circuit where both local inhabitants and passionate professionals are pitted against a criminal underworld. As we traverse a landscape full of caves and looted tombs, the film weaves together an interdisciplinary investigation of the ground, considering the relationship between archaeology, geology and ecology. It is a study of a territory, and the marks and wounds that it bears of a history of pillage, but also a portrait of the people that inhabit it.
