Heavy Metal Detox, 2019

Heavy Metal Detox as an aesthetic paraphrase on the removal of amalgam dental fillings. The procedure – mirrored from spiritual, sarcastic, existential and nihilistic perspectives – condenses into a cantata in film format.

Heavy Metal Detox, 2019
35mm/DCP/HD Video, b/w, sound, 12 min

Director, Script, Editing and Production: Josef Dabernig

Camera: Christian Giesser

Music: Christoph Herndler

Sound design: Michael Palm

Cast: Kristina Balcanovic, Josef Dabernig, Cornelia Schintlmeister, Josef Schintlmeister

Funding: if innovative film Austria at the Federal Chancellery of Austria, Arts and Culture Division, Film Department and Cultural Department of the City of Vienna (MA7)

World Premiere at TIFF Toronto International Film Festival 2019, Wavelengths section, curated by Andréa Picard

Josef Dabernig

Heavy Metal Detox, 2019
still image, 35mm/DCP/HD Video, b/w, sound, 12 min
Josef Dabernig

Heavy Metal Detox, 2019
still image, 35mm/DCP/HD Video, b/w, sound, 12 min