Brandon Pithouse

Composed of fragments of recorded speech, parliamentary reports, and newspapers, Brandon Pithouse is a history of the coal mine in County Durham, England. It looks at the experience of labor - about the pain and danger of working underground, about the damage to the human body and about the human relationships created in such conditions. It is a study in the attachments and distances which shape our relationships to place and time; it is a set of notes for an unmade Eisenstein film, and a footnote to chapter 10 of the first volume of Marx's Capital. And like any history, it is a ghost story.