This Unwieldy Object: A Modern Research Drama by Anna Zett
This Unwieldy Object: A Modern Research Drama
by Anna Zett
May 6, 2018
Alyssa Davis Gallery
47 minutes, HD video, stereo
R: Anna Zett, USA/Germany 2014
The trans-genre film This Unwieldy Object performs a personal investigation into the colonial myth of the dinosaur.
On a road trip through the dusty heart of the USA a researcher intends to make physical contact with a phantasy, traversing a mythical non-place between East and West, masculine and feminine, material and projection, past and future. Meeting fossil traders, sculptors and scientists on both sides of the American Frontier, they are trying to reconstruct the plot of natural history, the plot of progress. The story ends in the middle, in Rapid City, South Dakota, at the foot of an imported Berlin wall fragment, but the journey continues.
RESEARCH, PRODUCTION: Anna Zett
CAMERA: Janine Jembere
SOUND RECORDING: Janine Jembere, Anna Zett
MUSIC: Paul Arámbula
EDITING, VOICE: Anna Zett
SOUND MIX: Birte Gerstenkorn
GRADING: Sebastian Bodirsky
Organized by Amelia Farley and Henry Osman for At the End of the Game You Will Be Forgotten