Project Detail

A Demonstration

Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner

Synopsis

A monster film with no monsters. Inspired by the existence of taxonomies of monsters at the heart of Early Modern European science, the film explores and reinterprets a way of seeing the natural world that is almost impossible to imagine from today’s vantage point. Early Modern naturalists were guided by a logic in which scientific truths were discovered through visual analogy. The word ‘monster’ comes from the latin ‘monstrare’, meaning to show, to reveal, to demonstrate. A DEMONSTRATION picks up on these themes in a poetic exploration of the boundaries of sight and the metamorphosis of form.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2020 - Berlinale Shorts - World premiere

Details

Year: 2020
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 24 min 50 sec
Format: HD video
Director: Sasha Litvintseva, Beny Wagner
Producer: Daan Milius, Hans van Hezik, Guillaume Cailleau
Co-Producer: Sasha Litvintseva
Editor: Sasha Litvintseva, Beny Wagner
Screenwriter: Sasha Litvintseva, Beny Wagner
Director of Photography: Sasha Litvintseva, Beny Wagner
Sound: Sasha Litvintseva, Beny Wagner
Composer: Beny Wagner

Genre

Experimental Climate / Environment Woman Director Science

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

UK, Netherlands, Germany co-production

A Sasha Litvintseva (UK), Video Power (NL), CaSk Films (DE) production

Sasha Litvintseva

11 Belsize Road
London
NW6 4RX

Sales Company

Video Power

Daan Milius
Batterijstraat 48
6211 SJ Maastricht
The Netherlands

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