[Frameworks] An animal is not a metaphor - special program at 62nd AAFF

[Stephen Anker]

Looks good, Kornelia. I wish I could be there.have a great time!
Steve

On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 8:07 PM Kornelia Boczkowska <
kornelia.boczkowska at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
> There’s a special program on animals in experimental film at the AAFF.
> Perhaps it might of interest to those living in Ann Arbor or nearby. The
> show’s at the State Theatre on Saturday 7PM - pls see below for details.
> Best,
> Kornelia
>
> An Animal is Not a Metaphor
> Curated by Kornelia Boczkowska
>
>
> Since the early days of avant-garde cinema, some iconic experimental
> films, including Private Life of a Cat (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid,
> 1947), Mothlight (Stan Brakhage, 1963), Berlin Horse (Malcolm Le Grice,
> 1970), and Jamal (Ibrahim Shaddad, 1981), have abundantly featured
> animals, usually presented not as mere props or companions, but as central
> characters both closely interlinked with and independent of humans. In
> response to the animal crisis and the current developments of the
> Anthropocene, this program will demonstrate how artist-made films bring in
> the animal viewpoint so that animals become not just a subject or a
> metaphor, but a real object of the film, and provide clues to reexamining
> and transforming species co-existence.
>
>
> Berlin Horse
> Malcolm Le Grice
> UK | 1970 | 7 | 16mm
> Two sequences: one, a horse being exercised in the village of Berlin near
> Hamburg in Germany; the other, an early Edison newsreel of horses being led
> from a burning stable. Both were visually transformed and colored on the
> printer at the London Film Makers Cooperative. The sound is an original
> track by Brian Eno.
>
>
> Jamal [A Camel]
> Ibrahim Shaddad
> Sudan | 1981 | 13 | 16mm
> A report from the life of a camel, most of which plays out in a dreary,
> small room—a sesame mill.
>
>
> Cat Dance
> Scott Stark
> USA | 1991 | 6 | digital
> Two cats become visual elements as they are playfully dragged through
> fields of pattern and color, followed by a manic section of breathless
> vocalizing by the filmmaker.
>
>
> Horsey
> Frédéric Moffet
> Canada | 2018 | 9 | digital file
> “Horses are lucky, they’re stuck with the war same as us, but nobody
> expects them to be in favor of it, to pretend to believe in it.” An
> allegory recycling images from the past, still relevant to the present
> moment.
>
>
> Pattaki
> Everlane Moraes
> Cuba | 2019 | 21 | digital file
> In the dense night, when the moon lifts the tide, beings are trapped in
> the daily life of water scarcity. They are hypnotized by the powers of
> Yemaya, the goddess of the sea.
>
>
> It Matters What
> Francisca Duran
> Chile / Canada | 2019 | 9 | digital file
> Absences and translations motivate this experimental animation in an
> exploration of the methods and materials of reproduction and inscription.
> The inquiry is set within a framework of practical and critical human
> relationships with other-than-human species elucidated by the theorist
> Donna Haraway.
>
>
> Stitching the Future with Clues
> Allison Leigh Holt
> NY / CA | 2021 | 14 | digital file
> A neurodivergent-futurist manifesto, commissioned by the Ford Foundation
> Gallery for the exhibition Indisposable: Structures of Support After the
> ADA. Existing both as a single-channel film and as an immersive live
> performance, it asks viewers to consider feedback systems as theoretical
> frameworks, using animated diagrams, audio/video feedback processes, and
> expanded cinema techniques.
>
>
> Turkey Vultures
> Toney Merritt
> USA | 2020 | 1 | digital file
> Turkey vultures in flight this morning, 4/25/2020, over Toney Merritt’s
> home in Northern California.
>
> More info:
> https://prod3.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=852331~316d2c96-7be3-4c1b-82b1-d1a7143bdb35&
>
> Supported by the National Science Centre, Poland, under the project "An
> animal is not a metaphor: Animals and human-animal relations in American
> experimental ecocinema" (grant no. UMO-2023/49/B/HS2/00653)
>
> --
> Kornelia Boczkowska, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor
> American Studies Research Unit
> Faculty of English | Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kornelia_Boczkowska
> https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0875-9209
>
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