Dark Matters

In „Dark Matters“, Taube approaches the remote state of a distant night, by investigating and collecting various evening experiences and their atmospheric perspectives. The film shares individual observations and personal encounters at night, following Taube’s interviews with night guards at eight different places around the world.

The conditions during these absent periods of time, a set up that isn’t entered by many, their self-observation and observation of others, becomes the script of the film: In reports, anecdotes, nightmares, fears and fantasies, the respondents communicate the night as a type of state, as a sum of hours, as a shelter or danger zone, or simply as darkness.

Taube succeeds in distilling the individual responses and feelings and translates them into simple and strange pictures played by a single protagonist. The character developed from this multi-layered personality is one that cannot be fully grasped. The sense of darkness and loneliness places everything under the spell of self-observation and elevation. „Dark Matters“ plays the aftermath that lies beyond the conventional or mystical encounters that one may experience in the shadow world. The night becomes the state of the figure; the darkness has penetrated their existence and now both have formed the nature of the isolated protagonist.