A Demonstration

film type experimental film Production Country Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland production year 2020 runtime 24'50 colour
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Stereo languages Englisch Subtitles Deutsch
screening format Media File (ProRes, mp4, mov) aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Stereo languages Englisch Subtitles Deutsch

A DEMONSTRATION is a poetic exploration of how taxonomies of monsters in early European science expressed a way of organising the natural world. The film picks up on these themes by tracing the boundaries of sight and the metamorphosis of form.

https://www.videopower.eu/movies/4/2/2020/a-demonstration

director Sasha Litvintseva, Beny Wagner Original-Filmmusik / Original Score Beny Wagner, Sasha Litvintseva Schnitt / Editing Beny Wagner, Sasha Litvintseva Bildgestaltung / DOP Beny Wagner, Sasha Litvintseva Drehbuch / Script Beny Wagner, Sasha Litvintseva Produktion / Production Daan Milius, Guillaume Cailleau, Hans van Hezik
Festivals
2020 Berlinale - Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, Germany
2020 Curtocircuíto – International Film Festival, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2020 EXPIFF International Experimental Film Festival Bucharest, Romania (Best Visual Concept Award)
2020 Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, Russian Federation
2020 Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF), San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato City, Mexico
2020 Imagine Science Film Festival, New York, USA
2020 Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest, Germany
2020 New Holland Island International Debut Film Festival, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
2020 Still Voices Short Film Festival, Ballymahon, Ireland
2020 Film Festival della Lessinia, Bosco Chiesanuova, Italy
2020 Chicago Underground Film Festival, USA
2020 Environmental Film Festival Australia, Melbourne
2021 London Short Film Festival, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Awards
2020 Nominierung Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis 2020
Production
  • Hans van Hezik
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Distribution
  • Video Power
  • Claudia Sánchez Jiménez
  • http://www.videopower.eu
Sales
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  • Claudia Sánchez Jiménez
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Sasha Litvintseva

Sasha Litvintseva is an artist, filmmaker and writer. She has presented her films worldwide at festivals, museums and biennales such as Berlinale, IFFR, CPH:DOX, Courtisane, Cinema Du Reel, Punto de Vista, Baltic Triennale, Venice Architecture Biennale, ICA London, Los Angeles Film Forum, MOCA Chicago, among others.

Filmography
2022 Constant
2021 Every Rupture
2020 A Demonstration
2019 Bilateria
2017 Salarium
2016 Asbestos
2016 The Stability of the System
2015 Exile Exotic
2014 Evergreen
2014 Immortality, home and elsewhere
2013 Alluvion

Beny Wagner

Beny Wagner is an artist, filmmaker, and writer. He has presented his films worldwide at festivals, museums and biennales such as Berlinale, IFFR CPH:DOX, Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Forum, Guanajuato Film Festival, Museum of Moving Image, NY, Eye Museum, Amsterdam, Transmediale, V

Filmography
2022 Constant
2021 Coal Mine in the Canary
2020 A Demonstration
2019 Bilateria
2017 Outside
2016 Eye Farm
2016 We’re All Here
2016 obviously this is a girl’s apartment
2013 Invisible Measure