Partners
-
Centrul Național al Cinematografiei
-
Goethe-Institut
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- You are here: Home > CAUSE OF DEATH
You are here
Online -
Wednesday, November 25, 2020 - 19:00
Written by:
Jyoti Mistry, Napo Masheane
Cast:
Napo Masheane (voice)
Editing:
Nikki Comninos
Sound:
Peter Cornell
Producer:
Florian Schattauer
Production:
Süd Nord Film
CAUSE OF DEATH is a simultaneous celebration and elegy of the female body - extensively using archival footage from the first half of the 20th century as well as animations and documents to represent both various feminine rituals across diverse cultures, or moments of intimacy with one's own body, but also to document the burning of "witched" and other forms of extreme violence against women. A cinematic slam poem that encapsulates and reappropriates, from a feminist perspective, two millennia in the history of womankind. (Flavia Dima, BIEFF 2020)
Director:
JYOTI MISTRY (b. 1970) is a filmmaker born in Durban, South Africa. Combining cinematic tradition and installation art, her works - which range both fiction and documentary, short and feature films - have been screened both in festivals such as Berlinale, Toronto Film Festival, Kurzfilmtage Winterthur and Rotterdam Film Festival, as well as in institutions such as Kunsthalle Wien, Museum der Moderne Salzburg and Kunsthaus Zürich. She teaches film at the University of Gothenburg.
Contact:
Dietmar Schwärzler
Festivals, awards:
Berlinale 2020 / Hamburg International Short Film Festival 2020 / Queer Lisboa 2020
EN: "The starting point for Cause of Death was] looking at the way in which images of women were marginalized historically in the archive or how they were depicted. I wanted to work through the very small moments or fragments across different titles that captured various facets and experiences of women (...) The woman with a curious and peering-look on her face at the end of the film is one I find haunting. She is an every-woman in a way and yet she is distinctive and her stare straight into the camera is arresting because she demands to be seen." (JYOTI MISTRY)