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OCCIDENT

dir. Thomas Taube
experimental, 30 min
Germany/ France  
2021
The question of what we can and want to see or consciously do not want to perceive is central to Thomas Taube’s film essay OCCIDENT. In parallel and collage-like visual and narrative layers, he links the threat and danger of the invisible substance, asbestos, with Eadwaerd Muybridge’s 19th-century photographs of human movement. His systematical analysis of individual body movements is historically linked to the exploitation of industrial workers. At the same time, a report by a present-day French asbestos removal company can be heard stating that this type of work is mainly carried out by migrant workers. As a whole, OCCIDENT is a visually stunning reflection on the
instrumentalisation of the human body and how society deals with physical danger: a manner historically linked to the history of colonialism, which also plays a role in Muybridge’s photos. These photos were produced at the time when asbestos was first used on a larger scale.*                                                                                                                                        
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cast

// Pina Bergemann
// Christian Erdt
// Claude Turquin

written & directed by  Thomas Taube
cinematography          Joanna Piechotta
light                             Inga Riedel
Composition               Gregor Pfeffer
Costume                     Marina Minst
Editing                         Thomas Taube
Color Grading             Enrico Wittich / Trickkiste Leipzig
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