Cyril Schäublin, Unrest (2022)
By Catherine Malabou
Issue 4, Summer 2025
Cyril Schäublin’s Unrest (2022, Unrueh) unfolds from a singular historical episode: after spending time in the watchmaking region of Saint-Imier in the 1870s, Russian revolutionary Piotr Kropotkin declared himself an anarchist. In English, Unruhe (Unrueh in old German) refers both to unrest in the political sense and a watch’s balance wheel. This dual meaning is central to the film’s texture, which explores the entanglement of technological precision and political resistance.
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