"A thought-provoking micro-lens through which to view the world.
Part philosophy, part science, DUST amounts to a kind of contemplative poetry."
– Nicolas Rapold, Film Comment

“(A) meditative, polymorphous essay on the pulverized:
that which remains formless, invasive, unprunable, and uncategorizable.”
– Bruce Sterling, Artforum

“Bitomsky’s dense, quicksilver voiceover, sense of philosophical depth,
healthy good humor and wry intellectual poetry make this journey
from microscopic to macrocosmic a meditation on the splendor of the futility of existence.”
– Film Comment

“Profound…a spiritual essay on life, death, science and violence.”
– The Independent

IT DOESN’T GET MORE BASIC THAN DUST. And it is only a filmmaker of Harmut Bitomsky’s stature who could successfully tackle a subject so seemingly uncinematic — by bringing to it a rigorous intelligence and a masterful visual imagination. DUST scours industrial sites and office building interiors, paint factories, and demolition sites. It deals with dust-repellent products, the medicinal cost of dust, the history of the Dust Bowl and the aftereffects of the dust created on 9/11. The definitive film on an elusive phenomenon that is both everywhere and nowhere.

GERMANY/SWITZERLAND • 2007 • 90 MINS.
IN GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES • ICARUS FILMS

Biography of Director Hartmut Bitomsky