Tower of Invincibility (2012)

Installation view

Tower of Invincibility

15:11 min., HD, 2012

with Sabotanic Garden, Pasi Mäeklä, Jussi Saivo, Niina Lehtonen Braun, Shalmon Abraham, Mimosa Pale and others

Tower of Invincibility is a film installation created in a neo-melodramatic style about the advancement of an esoteric health and sports camp in the early 20th century. The camera follows the protagonists during their daily routines: weight lifting, acrobatics, telepathy, leisure time and witnesses how they are progressing from day to day. The film takes place at the Teufelsberg, a former listening station during the Cold War in Berlin. In 2008 the Maharishi Foundation, along with Director David Lynch, bought the terrain for building a 50-meter tall “Tower of Invincibility” and a “Vedic University of Peace”. Analogies to the Maharishi Foundation’s vision were not known when the production of the film was started and therefore the coincidence is mainly fortuitous.