Movements of a Nearby Mountain

Sinémalogi 🟠🟢🔵3.0

Sebuah dokumenter observasional mengenai jalan sunyi yang ditempuh seorang imigran asal Nigeria di kaki pegunungan Alpen, Austria. Cliff (35 tahun) adalah mekanik autodidak yang berhasil membangun bisnis bongkar pasang mobil bekas di wilayah yang jauh dari hiruk pikuk kota. Kesendiriannya ketika bekerja dengan latar lanskap indah membuat frame-frame yang ditampilkan memiliki kepuitisan tersendiri. Film ini adalah bentuk potret entrepreneur mandiri yang bersaing dengan korporasi otomotif skala besar.

Film at Lincoln Center

At the foot of the Austrian Alps, a Nigerian mechanic works in a garage, repairing and exporting cars to his homeland. In the distance is Erzberg, a mountain that’s been mined for iron ore since Ancient Rome. Against this backdrop, the mechanic toils away in relative solitude, his routine labor standing in stark contrast to the resources being mined for capitalist gain in his periphery. A result of director Sebastian Brameshuber’s friendship with the film’s real-life subject and framed around a centuries-old legend of the mine’s mysterious creation, Movements of a Nearby Mountain commingles fact and fiction, myth and memory, in a meditation on man’s place in our globalist economy. Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2019 Cinéma du Réel.See the North American premiere on April 19 at Art of the Real.

dirtylaundri4.5

Such a beautiful film... on many levels, but maybe first and foremost as a film with an eye for the particular strangeness of cars.