Watch: Trinity filmmakers release world's first Sumerian language movie

'Dumuzi's Dream and Dumuzi's Demons' is directoed and produced by Professor Martin Worthington, who provided Babylonian translations for Marvel Studios’ ‘Eternals’. File photo: Chris Bellew / Fennell Photography 2021

Filmmakers at Trinity College Dublin have banded together to release a world’s first: a film performed entirely in the ancient and dead language of Sumerian.

Directed and produced by Professor Martin Worthington from the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, and starring 4th-year students Olivia Romao and Gwenhwyfar Ferch Rhys, the 20-minute film was posted to YouTube on Thursday.