Bläue (Blueness)
Synopsis
Juxtaposing images of the production sites of the pharmaceutical-chemical industry with speculations on the historical, social, and material conditions of Cyanotype photography, in this piece artist Kerstin Schroedinger probes into the (gendered) politics of materiality and the (violent) historicities of its form.
The film follows a figure that proceeds through the stages of exposing and developing a Cyanotype. They revisit sites in Seveso, Italy, and Basel, Switzerland that both relate directly to the history of Prussian Blue, a blue synthetic dye.
Official Selection Berlinale 2018 - Forum Expanded Exhibition - "A Mechanism Capable of Changing Itself" - Group exhibition at Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg
Details
- Year
- 2017
- Type of film
- Shorts
- Running Time
- 48 mins
- Format
- Video
- Director
- Kerstin Schroedinger
- Producer
- Kerstin Schroedinger
- Director of Photography
- Andreas Voß, Andrea Thal, Oliver Husain
- Music
- Wibke Tiarks
- Created with the Support of
- Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival 2017 (UK); North East Photography Network, Newcastle (UK); Goethe Institut (UK); Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen Innsbruck (AT); Images Festival Toronto 2017 (CA)
Genre
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 6th February 2018
