gypsum, clay, sweet cherrywood,
nacre, rubiaceae
a short film (19 min)
by Maxime Kurvers
production MDCCCLXXI
first screening held on May 22, 2026, at T2G – Théâtre de Gennevilliers
« What human waste eliminates nourishes the plant. The plant transforms air into solid components and nourishes the animal. Carnivores feed on herbivores, only to become in turn prey to death and to spread new life that blossoms in the plant world. This exchange of substances has been called metabolism.»
Jakob Moleschott, Der Kreislauf des Lebens, 1852.
« It is not the unity of living and active human beings with the natural, inorganic conditions of their exchange of matter with nature, and hence their appropriation of nature, which requires explanation or is the result of a historical process, but rather the separation between these inorganic conditions of human existence and this active existence, a separation which was completely established only in the relation of wage labor and capital.»
Karl Marx, Grundrisse, 1857-1858.
Gypsum, clay, sweet cherrywood, nacre, rubiaceae tells the story of a Kagura mask and its journey from the earth to the stage.
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