screening
curated by Lucas Morin
December 3rd, 2020, at 6pm
Goethe-Institut Thailand, Bangkok

en français
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Yalda Afsah, Vidourle, 2019, 10′
Yu Araki, Bivalvia: Act I, 2017, 20′
Christine Ayo, Ikoce: Volume I, 2020, 10’53”
Agata Ingarden, The Arm, 2018, 4’41”
Jelena Jureša, Ubundu, 2019, 17′
Lila de Magalhaes, Subterranean Tournament, 2019, 8’55”
Rayane Mcirdi, One, two, three, 2019, 8’36”
Jean Painlevé, Les Pigeons du square (The Pigeons of the Square), 1982, 26′
P. Staff, On Venus, 2019, 13′
Mona Varichon, 23 mars 2019, Gilets jaunes Acte XIX, 2020, 11′

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The Birdcage gathers films and videos from the fields of contemporary arts and experimental documentary cinema.
Curated by Lucas Morin, in correspondence with the Animal Kingdom film program curated by Filmvirus.

Memories of dancing conjure up stories of political resistance in Northern Uganda. An African football cup questions nation-building in post-colonial Paris. Meanwhile, unrest and injustice divide French society in its most public and most intimate spaces. The screening program The Birdcage looks at practices and ideas that bring communities together, and against one another. It also looks at how human-animal relationships come together with politics, questioning notions of agency, empathy, dependence, and coexistence on a daily basis. The invisible threat of a bull brings out a deeply-ingrained fear into the construction of masculinities. Pigeons in a square, cats on a roof, oysters at the bottom of the ocean, and a lost horse tell stories of love and companionship. Eviscerated snakes give a bleak outlook on a not-so-distant future where life is impossible. The Birdcage brings forward animals and the people who live with and around them, in order to rethink kinship and extend the scope of the social and the political.