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KORNELIA BOCZKOWSKA's THE ANIMAL SHOW Ever wondered how experimental films represent animals? Our international cinema sister Kornelia personally introduces a global program that challenges the representation of animals in mainstream media, highlighting non-anthropocentric modes of seeing, being, and movement. These home movies, diaries, animations, found footage, and music videos--both handmade and digital--deepen our understanding of the complex relationship between humans, animals, media, and environment: Becoming, Jan van Ijken (Netherlands, 2018), the miraculous genesis of animal life seen in a great microscopic detail--a salamander in its transparent egg from fertilization to hatching; Not (A) Part, Vicky Smith (16mm, UK, 2019), in reference to the rapid decline of flying insects, dead bees found on walks were positioned directly onto negative film and contact-printed; Jamal [A Camel] (16mm, 1981), Ibrahim Shaddad's report from the life of a Sudanese camel plays out in a dreary, small room--a sesame mill; buffalo lifts, Christina Battle (16mm, Canada, 2004), a herd of buffalo desperately try to hold on as they cross the film frame; a bmovie, Lindsay McIntyre (Canada, 2005), in-camera S8 film about a dog named b; Laika, Deborah Stratman (USA, 2021), homage to the spirits of Space Test dogs, with music by Olivia Block, Michael Morris (16mm, USA, 2023), cine-poem for Black Taffy’s song Riding Day and a loving nod to LeGrice’s 1970 Berlin Horse.
PLUS: PATTAKI, Everlane Moraes (Cuba, 2019)--in the dense night, when the moon lifts the tide, water beings are hypnotized by the powers of Yemaya, goddess of the sea; The Fourfold, Alisi Telengut (Canada/Mongolia, 2020), based on ancient shamanic rituals in Mongolia and Siberia, and against the backdrop of modern existential crisis and human-induced environmental change, an exploration of indigenous world views and wisdom--a reclaiming of the ideas of animism for planetary health; HORANGI, Lynn Kim (USA/Korea, 2024), based on a dream of laying in a field of tigers, wrapping around each other, existing in union...a moment of tenuous harmony and myriad tactile feelings and emotions; Cuban iMAL (world premiere, USA, 2025), shot by both Dominic Angerame (here in person) when in Cuba and Alanna Zrimsek when on African safari; TBA, Toney Merritt (USA), also a 2025 world premiere, and also with artist in person!
$11 DOORS @ 7:30 SHOW @ 8:00
ATA GALLERY 992 VALENCIA STREET SF
www.othercinema.com
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992 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94110
