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Staub (Dust) |
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Country of production Germany, Switzerland Year of production 2007 Format 35 mm Length 90 min. Director Hartmut Bitomsky Production ma.ja.de. filmproduktion in co-production with Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, Big Sky Film and WDR in association with ARTE and Schweizer Fernsehen |
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Dust. It is everywhere and ever present. A conglomeration of the finest
particles set in motion as soon as things are starting to settle. It is
fought and cleared away and yet returns again even as it is being
removed. A Sisyphus whoever tries to defeat it. Dust nestles in carpets
and in attics. It invades laboratories and settles on artworks. It is
blown into the air from factory smokestacks and resides in every
raindrop. Dust causes illness, dust makes up the cosmos. It is the
smallest, discernable subject about which to make a film. Hartmut Bitomsky follows the path of the dust. In associative and symphonic movements, he pursues it to the place where it settles, and seeks out people who contend with it. Columns of cleaners in their daily battle for cleanliness, inventors of air cleansing products, scientists who investigate the damaging consequences of fine dust and uranium munitions from the US army’s stock of weapons, botanists, meteorologists, astronomers and artists. A culture of dust is revealed in its concrete phenomenology as a project of perception and as an area of overlap between anthropological and philosophical knowledge. Dust marks out the limits of where we can still directly experience who we are and where we come from, what we do and what we can or should be. We are never done dealing with it. Dust will not go away. |
Original Language German Subtitles English, Italian |
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Festivals Venice Film Festival 2007 / Orizzonti Competition Vancouver IFF 2007 Viennale 2007 Hofer Filmtage 2007 DOK Leipzig 2007 Rotterdam IFF 2008 Göteborg IFF 2008 Cinéma du Réel 2008 |
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Deckert Distribution GmbH
• Marienplatz 1 • 04103 Leipzig • Germany |
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