Heavy Metal Detox

The latest film by Austrian artist Josef Dabernigis a detailed (and scripted!) black-and-white portrait of Dabernig's trip to the dentist to have fillings removed, as its title slyly implies. Partly humourous, partly unnerving — with the uncanny, antiseptic mood heightened by Michael Palm's polished and perforating sound design — the film echoes Rinland's play of hands, instruments and enamel. Two films that, at a distance, resemble one another.

ANDRÉA PICARD