White Coal

Synopsis

A mound of coal, black dust dissipating into the air, a stone statue of a worker: These are the opening images of White Coal. Loosely inspired by Hermann Melville’s “The Confidence Man”, the story of a blind passenger aboard a Mississippi steamboat, the first thread of White Coal follows the journey of a Polish coal transport ship and a male figure dressed as in silent movies of the proletarian heyday.

Director Biography

Georg Tiller born 22.02.1982 Vienna (Austria). After unfinished philosophy and theater studies, he studied film studies first with Harun Farocki at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, then film directing and cinematography with Michael Haneke and Christian Berger at the Film Academy Vienna and later film directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). Since early on he has been working as a freelance artist and filmmaker later also as a producer of his own and his friends work, initially with the artist collective naivsuper.