Ottu + My Want of You Partakes of Me
Sandra Ignagni, Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner / Canada, France, Italy, United Kingdom & Netherlands / 75 min
Two films nominated for the festival's art film award.
Description
Eight
Sandra Ignagni / Canada, France & Italy / 2024 / World Premiere / 21 min
Beautiful hand-developed analogue film from Corsica, where the eight winds of the Mediterranean are the ephemeral subject of an historical investigation.
A filmmaker searches for the eight winds of the Mediterranean on the island of Corsica. Using found footage and hand-processed footage on analogue 16mm film that attempts to expose the ethereal nature of the wind, Sandra Ignagni takes us to abandoned churches, cemeteries and ravaged beaches in her quest to find meaning in what is invisible and has no origin or end. You don’t always find what you are looking for, but the fleeting winds lead her in the direction of Corsica’s unique history of rebellion and resistance – a history that the islanders proudly carry on today.
My Want of You Partakes of Me
Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner / United Kingdom & Netherlands / 2024 / World Premiere / 55 min
An imaginative film about the digestive process as a condition for our physical existence - and as a prism for an intellectual journey through the cultural history of the body.
Artist couple Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner are back at CPH:DOX with an original, visionary and unpredictable film work that deals with something as immediately fundamental as digestion. ‘My Want of You Partakes of Me’ examines digestion as the fundamental condition of being in the world – but also as a process with physiological, psychological, spiritual, literary and scientific dimensions. Parallel stories trace the poetics of incorporation as a question of metamorphosis and decay, philosophy of matter and imperial conquest, industrialisation and destruction, poetry and parenthood, love and citation.