Katja Verheul

Films

Red Dust

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Red Dust

2024 | 4K | 16:9 | stereo sound | 17.09 min. | French with English subtitles

Still Red Dust 2024
Still Red Dust 2024

A couple of times a year, the sky turns red in France. Sand dust from the Sahara is passed through a difference in air pressure from North Africa to Southern Europe. This dust, a time capsule containing cesium-137 from the French nuclear tests in Algeria, covers everything. The film exposes the impact of a war that was never fought. A French veteran and an archeology student share and speculate on what will be remembered and what will be hidden under the sand forever.

In Eye Experimental archive and distribution.

Distribution LI-MA Amsterdam.

Screenings

2025 171project.space (NL)
2025 De Nieuwe Vorst (NL)
2025 EYE ON ART, Eye Filmmuseum (NL)
2025 IFFR (NL) (World Première)

Research presentation

2024 Golden Pixel Cooperative - GPC LAB (AT)
2024 Off Screen X Studio Art Office (NL)
2023 Dos Mares Residency Program (FR)

PR

CREDITS

(in order of appearance)

Reconstruction test site

  • 3D Reconstruction Design: Faysal Mroueh

EUMETSAT footage dust storms

  • Contains EUMETSAT DUST RGB/MSG footage 2022
  • European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites

Interview François Hamant

  • With: François Hamant
  • D.o.P.: Christian Paulussen
  • Sound recording: Christian Paulussen
  • Interview and translation: Maria Hohmann

Future Sahara

  • With: Thomas Chaput and Juliette Pautrat.
  • Voice-over: Judith Gatt
  • D.o.P.: Loïc Larrouze
  • Sound recording: Chloé Mazoyer
  • Production: Mezli Vega Osorno

Music and Sound Design: Cesi Denise Nolten
Colour Correction: Marco De Stefanis

With the support of CBK Rotterdam, Gemeente Rotterdam, Mondriaan Fonds, Cultuurfonds, Dos Mares residency program and Golden Pixel Cooperative Lab.

Archive

#RedDust
Still Red Dust 2024
Still Red Dust 2024
Still Red Dust 2024
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