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On Taphonomy
October 18 2022 (about 2 years ago)Rating
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- Director: Ana María Gómez López
- Genre: Documentary
- Runtime: 9 m
- Country: Netherlands
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.