Asbestos
Shot in the mining township of Asbestos, Quebec, home to the world’s largest asbestos mine that only stopped extraction in 2012, the film is a meditation on the entanglement of the fragility of bodies, the nonlinearity of progress, and the persistence of matter.
Crew
Director | Sasha Litvintseva, Graeme Arnfield |
Cinematography | Sasha Litvintseva |
Editing | Sasha Litvintseva, Graeme Arnfield |
Music | Graeme Arnfield |
Sound | Benjamin R. Taylor |
Producers | Sasha Litvintseva, Graeme Arnfield |
Produced by
Sasha Litvintseva
Graeme Arnfield
Additional information
Sasha Litvintseva
Born in Murmansk, Russia in 1989, her work as an artist, filmmaker and researcher has been presented at numerous film festivals and in solo and group exhibitions around the world. Her film Asbestos screened in the 2017 Forum. She holds a PhD in media, communications and cultural studies from Goldsmiths, University of London, and lectures in film theory and practice at Queen Mary University of London.
Filmography
2013 Alluvion · Alluvion; 31 min. 2014 Immortality, Home and Elsewhere; 12 min. · Immortality, Home and Elsewhere · Evergreen; 49 min. · Evergreen 2015 Exile Exotic; 14 min. · Exile Exotic 2016 The Stability of the System · The Stability of the System; 18 min. · Asbestos 2017 Salarium 2019 Bilateria 2020 A Demonstration
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2020
Graeme Arnfield
Graeme Arnfield, born in 1991 in the UK, is an artist, filmmaker, and curator living in London. He graduated with a Masters in Experimental Cinema at Kingston University. Producing sensory essay films from found, often viscerally embodied networked imagery, his films use methods of investigative storytelling to explore issues of circulation, spectatorship, and history. Research topics have included: the politics of digital networks, the material distribution of ecological matter, and the adaptive capacities of global and local histories. His work has been screened in different film festivals around the world. His short film Asbestos (with Sasha Litvintseva, 2016) was part of the 2017 Forum Expanded program.
Filmography
2014 I'm Sorry I Have to Run; 16 min. 2015 Sitting in Darkness; 15 min. 2016 Colossal Cave; 10 min. · Colossal Cave; 11 min. · Asbestos; with Sasha Litvintseva, 19 min., Forum Expanded 2017 · Asbestos 2017 Shouting at the Ground; 17 min. 2018 Pedigree; 21 min. 2019 The Phantom Menace; 36 min., Forum Expanded 2020 · The Phantom Menace; 36 min. 2021 Pervading Animal; 31 min. 2022 Home Invasion
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2023