CONSTANT

CONSTANT is a journey through the social and political histories of measurement. For most of recorded history, the human body was the measure of all things. CONSTANT asks what led measurement to depart from the body and become a science unto itself. The film explores three shifts in the history of measurement standardization, from the land surveying that drove Early Modern European land privatization, to the French Revolution that drove the Metric Revolution, to the conceptual dematerialisation of measurement in the contemporary era of Big Science. Each chapter traces the relationship of measurement standardization to ideas of egalitarianism, agency, justice, and power. 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.

Sasha LitvintsevaBeny Wagner
Sasha Litvintseva, Beny Wagner
photos © CaSk Films / Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner
  • Genre
    Essay, Experimental
  • CATEGORY
    Short
  • YEAR OF PRODUCTION
    2022
  • DIRECTORS
    Sasha Litvintseva, Beny Wagner
  • SCREENPLAY
    Sasha Litvintseva, Beny Wagner
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY
    Sasha Litvintseva
  • CAST
    Cynthia Beatt, Michael Hayes, Derek Elwood
  • PRODUCER
    Guillaume Cailleau
  • CO-PRODUCERS
    Sasha Litvintseva, Beny Wagner
  • PRODUCTION COMPANY
    CaSk Films
  • RUNTIME
    40 min
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • FESTIVALS
    IFFR 2022 Ammodo Tiger Competition, CPH:DOX New:Visions, First Look 2022 museum of moving images NY
  • GERMAN DISTRIBUTOR
    CaSk Films
  • SALES
    CaSk Films
    info@caskfilms.com
    www.caskfilms.com
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