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Wednesday, November 25, 2020 - 19:00
Cinematography:
EMMA DALESMAN, SARAH FORREST, SUSAN GIBSON, RODNEY KNIGHT, CHARLOTTE PRODGER, BOTSWANA PREDATOR CONSERVATION TRUST
Editing:
Charlotte Prodger
Sound:
Charlotte Prodger
Producer:
SUSAN GIBB
Production:
IF I CAN'T DANCE I DON'T WANT TO BE PART OF YOUR REVOLUTION
Charlotte Prodger's installation film speculates the topic of queerness in the animal kingdom in conjecture with her autobiographical testimony of becoming and sexual self-discovery. Starting from the image and behavioural log of a lioness - the titlulary SaF05, as the researchers name her - that adopts the appearance and habits of lions, the filmmaker reflects on her own queer experiences and the ones that surrounded her, mostly over a rich selection of austere landscapes. (Flavia Dima, BIEFF 2020)
Contact:
LUX
Festivals, awards:
Venice Biennale 2019 / Toronto 2019 / New York 2019
“I was thinking of these small intimate gestures that are seen in a global sense as inconsequential. You know how it is, growing up as a queer person, visibility is a very complicated and often terrifying thing. I was interested in all these small gestures and intimate moments, then the zooming out from that into vast landscapes of vast power structures. There’s definitely a physicality to the material. Editing is a very physical thing. You’re cutting, moving, and layering. Although I’m formally very interested in the physicality of the moving image format, for me it feels very important to rub that up against queer subjectivity.” (CHARLOTTE PRODGER)