Interspecies Saga
2020 | Video
Film
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By: Pauline Rip, Ramon Jimenez & Maren Bang.
15'52" found footage documentary examining mythological human-animal relations.
How can we know what nature is, if we interpret the natural world through the human narratives we project onto it? Through a tendency to anthropomorphize the world around us, humans have over-designed nature using story-telling and age-old narratives that have become deeply embedded in western culture. Interspecies Saga is a fictional documentary examining mythological human-animal relations. Extracting from historical, religious, psychological, and fandom perspectives, the found footage narrates how humans have found ways of internalizing and externalizing the natural world. The movie suggests the need for new subjective interpretations of what nature is, that break with ideological hierarchies that have mostly placed humans outside of or above nature.
Produced in occasion of Empathy Revisited: Designs for more than one, 5th Istanbul Design Biennial curated by Mariana Pestana and supported by the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Istanbul, Looking for Stigmergy → Episode I: From Underwater to Outer Space was curated by Martina Muzi.
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