On Taphonomy
MovieTitle | On Taphonomy |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Oct 18, 2022 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Ana María Gómez López |
Production country | Netherlands |
Run time | 9 min. |
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.