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Ursula Mayer

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2016

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Trinidad and Tobago

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FIC

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19

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In a not-too-distant future, and with the threat of mass extinctions of several species around the corner, a geneticist collects DNA samples of all life forms so as to freeze and preserve them. Ecology, strange LGBT communities, retro-futuristic scientific labs and exotic landscapes (the film was shot in Trinidad and Tobago) coexist in this Ursula Mayer’s film, creating a dystopian future where technology and science go hand in hand with mythology and strange rituals that seem to originate in ancient civilizations, where the strong connection between man and nature is felt in a particular way. By doing it, as is usual on her work - in cinema, but also in photography, sculpture or installation - Mayer questions the effects of technology on the future of humanity and on the environment, making a singular reflection, set somewhere between science fiction, biology and techno-science, about our era of profound social, geopolitical and economical changes whose complexity questions its own control by human beings. In her films, formal experimentation and the materiality of support (film) emerge simultaneously with queer and gender issues. (MD)

 

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LUX
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[DIR]

Ursula Mayer

[SRC]

Ursula Mayer, Rachel Claire Hill

[PHT]

Margaret Salmon

[ED]

Ursula Mayer, Michelle Deignan

[SND]

Konrad Welz

[MUS]

Josuha Supayouth Salcedo, Rapper Sweet Lizzie

[ACT]

Valentijn de Hingh, Amanda McIntyre, Jillia Cato, Omar Jarra, Zeleca Julien
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