The matriarchy by Baba Yaga, visionary mosquito swarms, sausage-arrangements, filled to the brim with desire. The grandmother reads a Chinese poem that sounds like English. Secrets come to light and slip away into darkness for eternity. The program connects female perspectives on the reproduction of family, ideology and ecology systems. Past, present and future intertwine and create new hybrid, prophetic spaces full of cross-connections between image, reproduction and death. (Jessica Manstetten)
A Chinese poem can also sound like an English letter. Secrets are briefly revealed, but at the same time the door to them is closed forever. We linger at the door, and I just want to stay with you longer.
… >>>The film, created from the Polish Educational Archive materials, tells the story of a matriarchal family through the eyes of a child grappling with the reproduction of ideological and representational systems.
… >>>Very small beings are often behind major events on the planet. HOVERING OVER US observes mosquitoes, the tiny creatures that float around us. The hybrid film dives into a reality where the smallest creatures have become unpredictably significant. Past, present, and the imaginative overlap and create strange visions, where uncanny details start to resemble prophecies, and a human becomes a tiny piece of the big buzzing puzzle.
… >>>CLING FILM follows the narrator as she immerses herself in her grandmother's strange photo album, in which arrangements of sausages appear in place of traditional family portraits. These uncanny images spark a deeper investigation into the links between passive memory and the meat industry in post-war Germany, revealing how the mundane object of the sausage carries significant cultural weight. The video essay examines the intertwined nature of photography, slaughter, and death, turning the sausage into a powerful metaphor for longing and mourning.
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