Time travels in archaeology : between Hollywood films and historical re-enactment?

One of the recently most popular ways of experiencing the past is time travelling. It is an experience and social practice in the present that evokes a past (or future) reality’ (Holtorf 2009: 33). In this article, I mainly discuss the political aspect of time travelling. I focus on cinema as a medium which closely links archaeology with the time travel phenomenon. Two Oscars galas, of 2010 and 2012, are scrutinised as case studies. The text is a political intervention to start dreaming dangerously, to contribute as an archaeologist to the critique of the utopia of capitalism (see also Hernando 2005: 75).This publication is part of my research work at Linnaeus University, thanks to a Swedish Institute scholarshipBack to the past? The relations between tourism, past and culture heritage. The case of Poland and Swede