The axial precession, the vernal equinox, the zodiac: each determines a period intime, precisely calculated from the circular axis motion of the earth. Life in Loop: is time a circle, too? Or is it as science proposes, linear and progressive? Do the creatures of earth perceive time differently? The four films in this program name, show, and question the relationship between time and space, or they externalize themselves by making it experiential. While in MIGRANTS birds of passage traverse boarders in periodic unison, in EL CANTO DE LACRISÁLIDA people periodically withstand winter through the same labor, static, and enclosed. While THE PROBLEM OF THE HYDRA depicts how the freshwater polyp Hydra Vulgaris doesn’t age, EARTHEARTHEARTH makes palpable how the light of the sun just sparks one day, and dies out theother. (Azin Feizabadi)
THE PROBLEM OF THE HYDRA is an experimental documentary film about the practical and metaphysical problems a small fresh-water polyp, known as Hydra, has caused since the 1700s to the present day. Contrary to most animals, Hydra vulgaris does not age – at all.… >>>
Eleven Metamorphoses. Inhale - Winter. Light, chirping, and city life sneak through cracks of the window. Wall-lined rooms wrap our hibernators, woven together by gestures and rituals. Exhale - Spring.… >>>
The starting point for the video work MIGRANTS is the return of tens of thousands of migratory birds every evening to their roost in the Dollart, a bay formed by storm tides in the German-Dutch border region. In their search for food, they cross political borders – which are completely irrelevant to them – on a daily basis. Instead, the seek orientation along the large landscape formations, which in the Wadden Sea constantly move and shift in relation to each other. In the montage, the theme of the border is taken up and transferred into a temporal grid: a cut is made each second. Within this framework, an almost continuous movement is written with the aid of disparate shots: from approach to landing, from day to night, and from an agricultural environment to a dystopian, post-industrial setting.… >>>
Dawn breaks where land is flesh And bones’ echoes; You’ve lived through extinctions – Stars, skies, sand and seas; Future is catching us up at last, And all the dead are ahead of us. Dawn breaks where land is flesh And bones’ echoes; You’ve lived through extinctions – Stars, skies, sand and seas; Future is catching us up at last, And all the dead are ahead of us.… >>>