Issue

The Body Festival

August 2022

It's August. This is the time where the body enjoys the heat, feels the sun, moves around, perhaps travel physically or metaphorically: how does the body remember and through what mechanisms do we exercise that bodily memory? How do our senses inform or trigger our sense of remembrance and knowledge archived through corporeal means? This issue explores the capacities of the body in interrelating with our psyche, the limits of perception through the body, during the summer, when the body travels the most! Curated by Pamela Martinez

Foreign Bodies, Common Ground

FILM UK 2013
Barry J. Gibb

'Foreign Bodies, Common Ground' has set up six artist residencies in six Wellcome Trust-funded research centres as a way of teasing out some of the more personal, philosophical, cultural and political dimensions of health research. This exciting project is born out of Wellcome Collection's desire to

Foreign Bodies

FILM Canada 2013
Nicolas Brault

Foreign bodies was created using video light painting and modern medical imaging (CT, MRI, cryosection), generating a mythical landscape of transparent bodies, and instilling a sense of strangeness that our own bodies can sometimes inspire.

Antibiotic Apocalypse

FILM United States 2016
Carla Brown

Antibiotic resistance explained through dance and art. The Antibiotic Apocalypse is upon us... Our widespread ABUSE of antibiotics has resulted in the emergence of resistant bacteria, which are no longer susceptible to these therapies. In an attempt to showcase this major health concern... Game Dr a

Sandghost dance

FILM United Arab Emirates, Portugal 2016
Kirk Woolford

The Arabic term jinn means "invisible beings." The jinn are sentient beings who are composed from subtle matter. Before Islam, they were worshiped as gods, as tutelary deities, or as spiritual protectors not only in the Arabian Peninsula but also in neighboring areas…. In Qu'ran… there

Synapse Dance

FILM Canada 2016
Karen Suzuki

Canada's National Ballet School is world-renowned for training ballerinas. Now people with Parkinson's Disease are learning to dance in the NBS studios. Through animation watch what happens in the brain of a dance student with Parkinson's.

Hon mê

FILM France 2016
Laurie Dasnois

This short film is about the apparent incoherence of coma. A woman in a bright red dress, figures wearing cold hospital clothes, a forest, a lake, and muted, distant voices unconnected to the image are among the contrasting elements brought together here. What may be logical to one person can seem i

Preclinical Body

FILM Netherlands, Canada 2012
Kaisu Koski

The video piece is a poetic documentary which explores various representations of the body offered in the different learning contexts in the preclinical curriculum of the medical school, moving through so-called discovery learning, clinical skills and anatomy lab experiences.

Bodies for a Global Brain

FILM United States 2014
Eben Portnoy

A software engineer discovers that the internet has become conscious... and wants to test-drive human bodies. This web pilot combines absurdist performance, machine learning, and live data-mining of dialogue from Twitter to tell the darkly comic modern love story of one couple's radical experiment i

Where We Used To Swim (2019)

FILM Germany 2019
Daniel Asadi Faezi

Lake Urmia in Northern Iran was once the biggest lake of the Middle East. But human influence has set its course and brought the drought. Nowadays just 5% of the original lake remain. The rest is dried out and covered by salt. It became a political symbol all over the country. This cinematic essay o

Os Olhos na mata e o gosto na água (The Eyes in the Woods and the Taste in the Water)

FILM Brazil 2020
Luciana Mazeto Vinícius Lopes

In Brazil, the inhabitants of Teewald, a German colony founded at the end of the 19th century, are still proud of their Germanic roots. Starting with the text of German-Turkish researcher Ilhami Paker, which uses irony to analyse different migratory movements, the film questions the complex process

The Circadian Cycle

FILM Australia 2019
Garry Stewart

Using the dancing body as a metaphor, The Circadian Cycle examines morphology, biological rhythm and animal behaviour. The film charts a day from sunrise to evening, moving through cycles of nature, from nascence and awakening to predation and death.

Girl and Body

FILM Australia 2019
Charlotte Mars

After collapsing during rehearsals, a young dancer struggles to make sense of her mysterious medical condition and her even more enigmatic hospital roommate.

Our Body is A Planet

FILM United Kingdom 2022
Léonie Hampton

"Our Body is a Planet" is an art/science collaboration between Léonie Hampton of Still/Moving and scientists at the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology at the University of Exeter. This short film challenges the way we think of ourselves as individual genetically prescribed entities, independent

Germano

FILM France 2022
Nona Griffin

Germano paints a portrait of a scientist. The film features Dr. Germano Cecere, a geneticist from Italy who runs a lab at The Institut Pasteur in Paris. He researches how we inherit lived experiences, or epigenetics, and is rethinking theories of inheritance. Yet, the film does not solely revolve ar

Flexible Bodies

FILM Germany 2019
Louis Fried

In FLEXIBLE BODIES a high-rise building protrudes out of its surroundings as a strange object. It's the (already dated) materialized utopia of an ideal workspace, dreams of career opportunities and selfoptimization echoing through the hallways. In and around the building bodies converge: working, ex

Lion

FILM Canada/Ukraine 2014
Daniel McIntyre

A project spanning three years of production and research, Lion explores the Chernobyl disaster and the nature of radiation, recollection, and personal history. Lion navigates atomic fallout and a girl's adolescence, a dream before death, radiation as a cause and a cure for cancer, masculine bravado

In Media Res

FILM France 2022
Anthony VALON

A human shadow wakes up in the middle of a giant empty factory, at the foot of a monolith that reflects his silhouette endlessly. He bears the marks of a time that has passed : the traces of a makeup that now deceives facial recognition.

En Mis Zapatos (In My Shoes)

FILM Belgium 2021
Pedro Morato Gabao

Paco Mora, an internationally renowned Spanish flamenco dancer, gave up his career to take care of his mother, Carmen, diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He provides daily to all her needs, while trying to keep dancing. With her, he decides to put on a show to realize Carmen's frustrated dream of b