Debt. Certificate. Histories

Debts have seemingly always existed, as have the various methods of dealing with them. Their securitization and associated marketability has led to the emergence of a multitude of highly diverse debt instruments.

Inspired by visual material of the historical debt instruments from the “world of bonds” (Olten, Switzerland), selected by Irini Athanassakis, the filmmaker Sasha Pirker is seeking in her film to find a new form of instrument by means of a “close reading” of the bonds.