Constant
40' / 2K DCP / 2022
DE, UK
"Constant" is a hallucinatory journey through social and political histories of measurement. From early modern European land enclosures to the French Revolution to the current frontier of Big Science, the film traces the relationship of measurement standardization to power, ideals of democratisation and the realities of physical dispossession. Cinematic and technical images that begin as products of measurement systems are stretched beyond their functions to describe the resistance of lived experience to symbolic abstractions.
Text / direction / camera / edit / sound design: Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner
Producers: Guillaume Cailleau for CaSk Films, Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner
3D and point cloud animation: Matteo Mastrandrea
Original music: dead hand
Additional music: Beny Wagner
Narration: Cynthia Beatt
Sound design and mix: Gabor Ripli
Color grade: Sergi Sanchez
Supported by:
Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg
Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien
