Dispossession

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2025
Single-channel video · 4K color · stereo sound · 17 min 04 sec

Locations: Pyrenees (Grand Antique & Le Bénou) / Nantong stone factories, China
Role: director / editor / field researcher

Industrial standardisation does not make marble identical. It makes difference manageable.

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Dispossession follows stone from quarries in the French Pyrenees to a processing factory in Nantong, China. Geological materials with distinct fractures, textures, and histories repeatedly enter the same operations: cutting, calibrating, grinding, polishing, and sectioning.

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Their differences survive—but in another form.

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Once detached from geological scale and place, variation becomes a surface property that can be classified, compared, transported, and exchanged. The film therefore treats dispossession not simply as the removal of stone from the mountain, but as the separation of appearance from the conditions that produced it.

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