On Taphonomy

Filmstill On Taphonomy

On Taphonomy

On Taphonomy
Ana María Gómez López
Competition for the Audience Award Short Film 2022
Documentary Film
Netherlands
2021
9 minutes
English
subtitles: 
English

A life dedicated to decay. Johannes Weigelt (1890–1948) was a palaeontologist, a dilettante photographer, a Nazi, all of it fervent. This essay is dedicated to the pioneer of taphonomy – sober and at the same time exciting in form. Three image fields are filled with changing content: black and white documents of fields of animal carcasses, a snapshot with Göring, text panels, artful photomontages. They all charge one another, containing a vibrantly shimmering biography fossilised in images.

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