Staub

Hartmut Bitomsky

IndieLisboa 2008 •

Germany, Switzerland, Documentary, 2007, 90′

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 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.