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When An Ill Wind Blows

Documentary Explores Alarming Content and Consequences of Dust

Written By Keith Henry, Communications Assistant

Contact - cleogrande@utica.edu

Utica, NY (02/20/2009) - Utica, N.Y. (Feb. 20, 2009) – It seems the most innocuous of things. It blows through the air and settles on our furniture, an annoyance usually mitigated with a rag and a can of Pledge. But dust, the ubiquitous distillation of earthly activities, has profound effects on human health, the environment and even the cosmos. Scientists have learned that the dust that swirls around the globe can not only carry the dangerous residues of industrial activity, but that pathogens can also survive as they ride the winds from Africa and Asia to our shores.

German filmmaker Hartmut Bitomsky has produced an award-winning and provocative documentary titled DUST. The film explores, in often unorthodox and counterintuitive ways, the myriad dimensions in which dust permeates and alters our world. One critic wrote of the film, “An unlikely but erudite documentary about the most ordinary subject imaginable. Bitomsky’s dense, quicksilver voiceover, sense of philosophical depth, healthy good humor and wry intellectual poetry make this journey from microscopic to macrocosmic a meditation on the splendor of the futility of existence.”

The film will be screened Thursday, Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. in Strebel Auditorium. It’s free and open to the public. The film is part of the FILM@UC Series. For more information about FILM@UC, contact Jeffrey Miller, associate professor of communications, at (315) 792-3086 or jmiller@utica.edu.


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