Honoured that It Matters What will screen in a Special Program at the 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival on Saturday March 30 at 7pm in the State Theatre 1
An Animal is Not a Metaphor
Curated by Kornelia Boczkowska
Since the early days of avant-garde cinema, some iconic experimental films, including Private Life of a Cat (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1947), Mothlight (Stan Brakhage, 1963), Berlin Horse (Malcolm Le Grice, 1970), and Jamal (Ibrahim Shaddad, 1981), have abundantly featured animals, usually presented not as mere props or companions, but as central characters both closely interlinked with and independent of humans. In response to the animal crisis and the current developments of the Anthropocene, this program will demonstrate how artist-made films bring in the animal viewpoint so that animals become not just a subject or a metaphor, but a real object of the film, and provide clues to reexamining and transforming species co-existence. @aafilmfest @cfmdcfilm #experimentalfilm #phytogram #ecoprocessedfilm