Shorts
Heavy Metal Detox
Josef Dabernig
A 2019
12 min
V'19
Although films by Blake Edwards or John Cassavetes use dentistry as the basis for black comedy, they lack something: the camera is never close enough to really study the process. Placing himself in the frame as the anaesthetized subject, Dabernig trusts his crew to record everything in pure black-and-white: drills, wires, pipes, clamps, drool, blood, floss. No abstract poetry as in Brakhage’s autopsy film; only a calm soundtrack of synthesized tones and buzzing machines. As often in Dabernig’s multimedia work, social obedience squares of with the strange ecstasy of abandoning oneself to fate. (Adrian Martin)
In the presence of Josef Dabernig.
Credits
- Josef Dabernig
- Kristina Balcanovic
- Josef Schintlmeister
- Josef Dabernig
- Christian Giesser
- Michael Palm
- Josef Dabernig
- Christoph Herndler
Josef Dabernig
sixpackflm
35 mm
SW
