15 March – 6 pm
Ecofeminism
Do we really realize how we are a ecting our planet?
Sometimes, we are so caught up in the system that we don’t even notice the footprint we leave. We are complicit in one of the most dangerous power relations: human and nature.
Ecofeminism has to be key in the current feminist wave, as it implies understanding that taking care of our habitat by generating a balance between animals is a way to ght against a patriarchal, colonial, and capitalist system that only seeks pro t by perpetuating exploitation and environmental degradation. Therefore, each short lm should be an open letter of struggle, a form of visual activism that motivates us to change our habits.
We need to move from re ection to action, inspiring real changes in our relationship with the environment.
(Gabriela Gioia, curator)
Selected short films
Discarded
by Ilana Goldman, USA (8’’)
A solo dancer (wearing a dress made from the plastic trash she generated over four months) embodies simultaneously both a woman and planet Earth reckoning with the impact of humans on the environment. Through her dancing body, we see Earth’s resiliency and ability to adapt to accommodate outside forces, but also its vulnerability when fighting certain sustained assaults. *Filmed on location at Glacier National Park as Artists-in-Residence.
Glass Ceilings
by Gisela Villanueva & Silvina Feraud, Argentina (9’’)
Glass ceilings addresses the precense of Argentine women in Antarctica, through the first-person testimony of the scientist Jazmín Fógel.
Hot Air
by Unides contra a colonização: muitos olhos, um só coração, Brazil & Colombia (25”)
The countries of the Global North are the biggest polluters on the planet with their CO2 emissions. Thus, they created the carbon credit system, which pretends to protect forests in the Global South, which are already protected by their first nations. A typical farce of the financial capitalism known as “hot air”. The enchanted beings of those forests, with their perforMAGIC ACTivations, came to reveal this great farce and invite everyone to do environmental justice with their own hands united in a great cosmic spiral.
What Remains
by Vickie Grondin, Canada (14.55’’)
During his daily picking, Bo has a moving encounter that reveals other existences to him. A hybrid story between a narrative and dance short film questioning our relationship with the living.
Holleben Wind Farm: A play of light at night
by Lisann Greiner-Bechert, Germany (8.18’’)
Well known and yet a mystery: Wiras. The flightless three-winged creatures can be discovered in many places in the Saxony-Anhalt landscape. Due to their enormous size, they can already be seen from afar. Especially along expressways and highways some swarms can be observed. But hardly anyone has dared to take a closer look at the habitat of these fascinating giants. The documentation provides information about the delicate creatures in the wind farm and combines breathtaking nature shots with never-before-seen detailed views.
We Still Have Joy
by Juliette Sera Bernard, France (16.07’’)
In the Saclay Plateau, the future of the Metropolis is taking shape. The Line 18 of the Grand Paris Express subway system cuts through its fields and devastates its lands. In the face of this colossal construction project, cheerful activists’ huts attempt to block the government’s actions until their destruction. The question that runs through this film is this: Why fight for land destined to disappear? It’s hard to say. Perhaps it’s because the advance of concrete scares us, the increase in speed exhausts us, and watching them drive the train that leads us to catastrophe revolts us.