CABALE DES OURSINS

A short defense of slag heaps from French New Wave critic and filmmaker Luc Moullet.

When mining activity in northern France ground to a halt, it left behind innumerable hills made of tiny stones. Taking on the role of investigative reporter for what he described as a “paraphysical documentary,” Luc Moullet examines these useless structures in an absurdist parody of the nature film.