Dust

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Audience Member Dust in many forms and the people who are engaged with it. I love people sharing their passions, even if they aren't my passions, yet I found my attention wandering and myself losing engagement regularly. I can't pinpoint what was missing but, while the movie occasionally grabbed me for a bit, it never held me. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Given the surprising subject of German documentarian Hartmut Bitomsky's (B-52, Reichsautobahn) new film, it's rather unfortunate that his study of the titular minute particles yields such unsurprising revelations. Simultaneously fascinating and tedious, exhaustive and incomplete, Dust, while formally interesting in the way it rapidly whisks the audience around from scene to scene in a way that simulates the global movement of dust itself, ultimately fails to provide any insights about dust besides what one probably already knows: dust is everywhere, dust is us, we can move it around but never get rid of it, etc. A heavy emphasis on the scientific study of dust (which is, although recondite, quite interesting) foregrounds a highly problematic, hypocritical, and classist tone to the whole proceedings--while we're expected to revere the astrophysicists' and botanists' take on dust (which gets the majority of screen time), we're also expected to laugh at the people who obsessively clean their homes, who manufacture vacuum cleaners, and who collect (and even catalogue, mount, and display) dust bunnies. Those in the custodial arts are never interviewed (and are rarely seen), and the function of dust culturally, religiously, and historically is altogether ignored. For the amount of ground it covers (and doesn't), the film could have been trimmed by half and have had the same resonance. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member I saw this at the film festival. So good. I mean it is about dust. It is very informative and entertaining. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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