Poetry Film | 00:03:40 | 2025

I THINK ABOUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE EVERY DAY is a media-archaeological poetry film responding to the 2023 viral trend that exposed an everyday male fascination with the Roman Empire. Moving beyond its humorous surface, the work traces Rome’s enduring role as a civilizational myth shaping law, architecture, social order, and imagination. Combining machinima, TikTok-style performance, TEMU readymades, 3D scans, and AI-generated sequences, the film juxtaposes playful digital reenactment with critical reflection. It examines how Rome’s legacy—romanticized, weaponized, or deconstructed—continues to frame ideals of civilization and power. Ultimately, it is a layered meditation on continuity and control, on modernity and myth.

Katia Sophia Ditzler (b. 1992) is an interdisciplinary media artist, writer, and filmmaker whose practice merges experimental cinema, poetic text, immersive media, performance, sound, and philosophical inquiry. Trained in creative writing, transmedia arts, cultural anthropology, and philosophy across institutions in Leipzig, Berlin, Moscow, Kyiv, Yogyakarta, Melbourne, and Zurich, she constructs symbolic systems that examine political myth, memory, and power. Her films, installations, and hybrid works have been shown internationally at festivals and exhibitions throughout Europe, Asia, the United States, and Australia.