- A fantastical journey from the filmmaker's childhood re-enactment of "The Fall of Pompeii" through decades and decline to the Sibyl's Cave, wherein she discovers Vesuvius' symbiosis with cinema, memory, and the spiral of time.
- Her home movie makes itself "at home" amongst ruins of the past, both her own and Pompeii's, through a homely assemblage of old and new, autobiography and history, memory and its mediation. Thinking of home beyond its intimate significance as a sentimental ideal, and more as a euphemism for national borders, citizenship, territorial sovereignty, and private property, what, then, does it mean to feel "at home" in an age of global migrancy and mass displacement, climate crisis and impending ecological collapse? As the future of planetary habitability remains an open question, who, if anyone, will have the right to call a place "home"? A cinematic reflection on home, history, and extinction, Vesuvius gestures to these existential questions that linger expectantly before us, like a cloud of volcanic ash on the horizon.—Johanna Gosse
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