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MATERIALSAMMLUNG

COLLECTING MATERIALS (2024)
52 Min, 16mm, 5.1 DCP - Germany / Colombia
 
 Beauftragte der Kultur und Medien des Bundes (BKM)
MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg-Schleswig Holstein (FFHSH)
Hamburgische Kulturstiftung
Goethe-Institut



Director David Gómez Alzate
Producers David Gómez Alzate & Bruma Cine – Luis Esguerra, Mateo Suárez Castiblanco & Esteban Cruz
Productions Assistants Jeremy Fermino Wesner – Deutschland & Linda Marin – Colombia Field Producer Esteban Cruz - Colombia
Director of photography Francisco MeCe Camera Assistant & Loader Catalina Torres – Colombia & Esra Tanriverdi – Deutschland
Sound on Set Camilo Martinez – Colombia & Vanessa Heeger – Deutschland, Sound recording in Studio Miguel Caldas  
Scenography Heejin Kwon & Anthoula Bourna Visual Effects Johannes Retter & Eduardo Murai
Editor David Gómez Alzate Sound Mix Roman Vehlken Color Correction Jannik Tesch
Speakers Laura Talenti & Konstantin Bez
Equipment by ARRI Rental / Shot on Kodak 16mm / Wytwórnia Dokumentalnych Film Labor (Warsaw)



What has happened to Konrad Theodor Preuss's collection?
Perhaps his collection is nothing more than an accumulation of dead and distant objects, a collection of traditions and popular rumours. No wonder it is called a crime scene. Any collection of materials alters the meaning of things, from relics to scraps and vice versa.Their accumulation carries with it a certain violence that consists of turning objects into archaeological objects. Thus creating sedimentary layers, linear successions, detachments, and a rupture between the versions of the past and those of the present.  Archival film, found and recreated, filled with plastic gestures and encounters. Collecting Materials is a palimpsest of times and documents, a freehand ethnography, an inventory of natural wonders.



Festivals:

Visions du Réel  - International Film Festival Nyon - Market Screening (Apr. 2024)

Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogotá (MIDBO) - Competencia Nacional (Oct. 2024) 

Cine Toro - Experimental Film Festival (Nov. 2024)

Goethe-Institut, Bogotá - Film screening & Panel Discussion (Nov. 2024)

PUNTO DE VISTA - Festival Internacional de Cine de Navarra - Selección Oficial (Feb. 2025)