17.09.2023 | IT IS NIGHT IN AMERICA (BR/FR/IT 2022, Ana Vaz) / {IF YOUR BAIT CAN SING THE WILD ONE WILL COME} LIKE SHADOWS THROUGH LEAVES (SG/FI 2021, The Migrant Ecologies Project)
Retrospective | ANIMAL REALITIES
É NOITE NA AMÉRICA aka IT IS NIGHT IN AMERICA
BR/FR/IT 2022, D: Ana Vaz, Doc, 66’, original with English subtitles, DCP
Through the night with owls, monkeys, foxes, capybaras and anteaters in Brasília. We dream ourselves into the mysterious, atmospheric film images, shot on expired 16mm material, accompanied by a melancholic, powerful soundtrack. From dreamlike to nightmarish, between documentary, horror and fantasy, IT IS NIGHT IN AMERICA breathlessly follows the animals’ paths, in what seems like an eternally gloomy night. Do the animals invade our cities or do we occupy their habitat?
{IF YOUR BAIT CAN SING THE WILD ONE WILL COME} LIKE SHADOWS THROUGH LEAVES
SG/FI 2021, D: The Migrant Ecologies Project (Konzept: Lucy Davis), Doc, 28’, original with English subtitles, DCP
In the sensory soundscapes of LIKE SHADOWS THROUGH LEAVES, neighbourhoods of nature and urbanism encounter birdcalls and imitations thereof, songs, whispering memories and rustling leaves in Singapore’s oldest, once celebrated social housing complex Tanglin Halt. We cannot see the birds that belong to this place, we can only wait for the sun to pass and follow their shadows. An invigorating, sensual exploration.
Sun 17. Sept | ANIMAL REALITIES UT Connewitz |
| 7 PM | € 6,5 (5,5 reduced) |
