PROGRAM 3: THE ANIMAL WITHIN

第三单元:动物深入

Total Duration: 61 MIN
总时长61分钟

 

THE ANIMAL WITHIN combines videos which deal with a new kind of wild behaviour and creative expression – either within ourselves or as a reaction to a vanishing fauna. Inspired by 17th century painting, hunting videos on youtube or Hitchcockian scenarios, this program presents works that elaborate upon spiritualism, emotional tension between mankind and the wilderness, as well as facing death as a reminder to the animalistic nature of our being. What do we feel after we shoot an animal? Why do birds look at us with disinterest? What happens to the soul in the forest? What is the difference between humans and dogs?

“动物深入”单元收录了通过艺术影像来处理新的一种野性行为和创意表达,这样的表达要么藏于我们自己体内或者消失群体的。汇合17世纪绘画的灵感,从youtube或者希区柯克式的场景中猎取视频,这一个单元展示的作品详细描述人性与野性之间的灵性、紧张情感,以及作为时刻提醒我们动物自然属性的死亡。

我们猎杀动物之后有什么感觉?为什么鸟类对我们毫无兴趣?在森林里的灵魂怎么了?人和狗之间的差异是是什么?

 

 

BUCK FEVER

初见猎物的兴奋

Neozoon / 6 min
6分钟

Amateur recordings of hunters, documenting their tensions before, and their relief after shooting an animal. Finally the hunters pose in front of the camera, expressing their emotions.

一个摄影爱好者拍摄猎人打猎前的紧张,成功杀到猎物后的安慰。最后,猎人们在镜头前摆好姿势,表达他们的心情。

BIRDS

Ulu Braun / 15 min
15分钟

A mesmerizing Hitchcockian visual study in ornithology, „BIRDS“, by visual artist Ulu Braun breaks down societal construction, hinting at a dormant danger: he observes Earth’s winged inhabitants from up close, looking at their ominous and omniscient presence that watches over us in quiet surveillance. Associative editing brings out the sinuous elegance of the creatures, placing them against the glamour and refuse of cities shaped by human civilization. A cohabitation of prehistoric lineage estranged by an abstract soundtrack, this unlikely pairing of fowl and man becomes a premonitory reminder of the fallacy of modern civilization’s progress.

一个迷恋希区柯克式视觉的鸟类学,这部作品打破了社会结构,暗示一个隐藏的危险:他从更高的视角仔细观察地球上带着翅膀的这些居民,看着他们不详地无所不在地无声地监视着我们。剪辑手法展示了这些生灵的优雅,让他们拒绝华丽和人类创造的文明。抽象的背景音乐分离了史前就有着血缘关系的共同栖息一族,人类与禽类不可能配对的这一事实似乎一直在提醒着现代文明的进步这一谬论。

17 TONES OF WHITE

Trond Ansten / 27 min

In the midst of the arctic mountains a white creature is harvesting ripe snow while a young sami is waiting by a desolated mountain road. The yield is taken care of by a viking woman and transformed over the open fire. A small flame is struggling its way through the snow in the mountains while nine nations gather around a round table. Would you like to hear another story?
The polar ice is decreasing and thereby opening closed transport passages and exposes new land and sea areas for fishery and establishment of oil and gas business. The never recognized polarimperialism increases with new force – all Arctic neighboring countries strive for legal recognition of larger national territory by increasing research, military armament and activity, financial investment and focus on national integrity.
In this artistic film essay the characters struggle partly in bizarre ways to confront the contradiction of the entity with the help of snow and cod in order to create meaning. The metaphoric imagery of the film enclosed with documental references and performative scenes raise questions about the current arctic identity and the challenges of dealing with natural resources in the sphere of geopolitical tension.

FESTIN

盛宴

Wojtek Doroszuk / 20 min
20分钟

“Festin” takes as its inspiration the paintings of the 17th century Flemish animalist artists, such as Frans Snyder, Jan and Ferdinand Van Kessel combined with post humanistic experimentation to envisage a future world in which the human has disappeared. The film portrays a vanitas tableau of decay and disorder where the guests have been usurped by uninvited intruders. The imagery within the film brings to mind a sort of post apocalyptic epilogue of humankind, a portent of a future referring to various present day representations of ghost towns and abandoned settlements from around the world.

影片灵感来源于17世弗莱芒画家,如Frans Snyder, Jan 与 Ferdinand Van Kessel,结合人类已经不存在的后人类主义的实验设想。影片描绘了一个衰退和混乱,主体被侵略的华丽的生动画面。影片中启示了人类未来收场,预兆着未来充斥的世界各个角落的鬼城和被废弃的居住地。

PROGRAM 1: THE END OF THE IMAGE AS WE KNOW IT

PROGRAM 2: POST EVERYTHING

PROGRAM 4: AUTO ANALYSIS