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AUTOTROFIA

Anton Vidokle
Italy
31 min.

Shot in the village of Oliveto Lucano in the south of Italy, Autotrofia is simultaneously a documentation of a very ancient pagan fertility ritual that is still practiced in this region, and scripted fiction, based on writings by the painter Vassily Chekrygin and the scientist Vladimir Vernadsky.

The scripted content of the film explores the ecological dimension of Russian Cosmism: a desire to transform and evolve in such a way that humans would not need to kill and consume any other living organism in order to produce the energy necessary for living, and instead learn from green plants how to generate nutrition directly from the sun. This idea, first developed at the turn of the 20th century, is juxtaposed with an older, pagan celebration: a harvest festival in which two trees that represent summer and winter are joint into one supernaturally tall tree, completing and connecting the seasonal cycle created by the orbit of our planet around the sun.

Premii și festivaluri

Exhibition | Venue and dates

Mezanin, Palatul Universul - 17-21 November

Palatul Universul - Strada Actor Ion Brezoianu 23-25
*Free entrance
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Anton Vidokle

Anton Vidokle is an artist and editor of e-flux journal. His work has been exhibited internationally at museums, art institutions, and biennials and screened at film festivals.

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LENGTH: 31 min.

YEAR: 2021

CPOUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Italia

DIRECTING & SCRIPTWRITING: Anton Vidokle

CAST: Muna Mussie, Alessandro Magania, Kasia Wolinska, Fabio Cipriano Romano, Simone Lanari

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ayman Nahle

EDITING: Ayman Nahle, Hinda Weiss, Anton Vidokle

MUSIC: Alva Noto

SOUND DESIGN: Eli Cohn

SOUND: Nocturnal Sound

COSTUMES: Comune di Satriano di Lucania

 

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