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Animisms
2022
Isotop Fellesatelier, Bergen
25 June
25 June
ANIMISMS was a screening of experimental films by artists that express intimate connections between humans, animals, and the environment. 'Animism’ (from Latin, 'anima' meaning, ‘life, soul’), is the belief that objects, places and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence, one that can foster a more ecological and respectful relationship with the natural world. The cultural significance of midsummer, as a celestial event attending towards the sacred and life-giving vitality of sunlight, provided the context with which to consider how artists approach the light of the moving image, and its technological reproduction, as an animate force; cultivating alternative perspectives on entanglements between human/non-human life, gender and history.
SaF05 - Charlotte Prodger, 39m, 2019
Lamb - Rosalind Nashashibi & Lucy Skaer, 6m, 2019
Atom Spirit - Ursula Mayer, 20m, 2017
Castorocene - George Finlay Ramsay, 11m, 2021
Programme:
- 'Lamb' - Rosalind Nashashibi & Lucy Skaer, 6m, 2019
- 'You Can’t Imagine Nothing' - Ben Rivers, 5m, 2018
- 'The Earth Moves because it is Alive' - Eli Maria Lundgaard, 17m, 2018
- 'Animations from Cape Dorset' - Solomonie Pootoogook, Timmun Alariaq, Mathew Joanasie, and
Itee Pootoogook Pilaloosie, 13m, 1973
- 'Areoles' - Hamid Waheed, 14m, 2021
INTERVAL: 18:00 - 18:20
- 'Flash in the Metropolitan' - Rosalind Nashashibi & Lucy Skaer, 16mm, 4m, 2006
- 'Atom Spirit' - Ursula Mayer, 20m, 2017
- 'Cavalos' - Solange Pessoa, 6m, 2003
- 'The Song of The Spinning Tree' - Jack O’Flynn, 8m, 2022
- 'Castorocene' - George Finlay Ramsay, 11m, 2021
INTERVAL: 19:10 - 19:30
- 'SaF05' - Charlotte Prodger, 39 minutes, 2019
- 'The Unmanned - 1834 - La Mémoire de Masse' - Fabien Giraud & Raphaël Siboni, 13m, 2015
- 'While Darwin Sleeps' - Paul Bush, 5m, 2004
Images courtesy of the artists and LUX London
Supported by Bergen Kommune and BEK - Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts
Poster Design by Luke Drozd