Coal Face

An exploration of miners’ living conditions and the mining industry of interwar Britain, composed in powerful images and using modernist editing. The film’s rhythmic structure and experimentation with sound combine to create an unsettling movie whose critical commentary presents an unemotional report on the work of miners. Numbers, the movement of people and machines, music, shouts and noises. Cavalcanti’s socio-critical film is an important representative of the poetic branch of the British Documentary School. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)