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WHITE COAL

By Georg TILLER

FAKTURA FILM - as SALES All rights, World

Environmental - Completed 2015

WHITE COAL is a cinematographic poem in two parts about the world of coal.

Festivals
& Awards

Rotterdam IFFR 2015

Bright Future

Dokufest Prizren 2015

Green:Dox, Special Jury Mention

Viennale 2015

Documentary Competition

Porto/Post/Doc 2015

International Competition

Festival do Rio 2015

Jeonju Int'l FF 2015

Expanded Cinema

- Year of production
- 2015
- Genres
- Environmental, Documentary
- Countries
- AUSTRIA
- Languages
- ENGLISH, MANDARIN
- Duration
- 70 mn
- Director(s)
- Georg TILLER
- Synopsis
- WHITE COAL is a cinematographic poem in two parts about the world of coal. The episodes shot in 16mm black & white are about the crew of a Polish coal ship – inspired by Herman Melville’s “The Conﬁdence-Man” – while the parts in colour are set in and around the world’s largest coal-fuelled power station.
  Georg Tiller does not seem interested in socio-economic conditions: WHITE COAL is a quest for forms and motives. In spun out, tranquil scenes, the camera glides past huge machines, open spaces and mysterious-looking control rooms. Tiller is primarily inspired by industrial ﬁlms from the past (especially the 1920’s), and the present.
  As plot, dialogues and music are absent, Tiller demands a great deal of patience from the viewer, but this also forces us to watch more closely. And he invites us to allow our imaginations to run riot.