While cartographing the world, the Google Street View car sometimes crosses paths with animals. ACCIDENTAL ANIMALS examines these encounters between the technical reproduction machine and animals such as spiders, donkeys or dogs. How comes the algorithm blurs pigs' faces? And what does it mean when 15 cameras focus on the eyes of an animal?
Leila Fatima Keita is a queer, black, disabled filmmaker who has been studying documentary film and editing at the University of Film and Television Munich since 2020.
Filmography
2024 Accidental Animals
Felix Klee, born 1990, is studying documentary film directing at the University of Television and Film Munich. From 2024 to 2025 he is a guest student in the class of Hito Steyerl at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. He is a graduate of the AdBK Munich and also studied at the AdBK Nuremberg.
Filmography
2016 Queen of the castle
2020 The deer gift
2020 Cosecha mecánica
2021 My paws are soft, my bones are heavy
2021 Papel
2021 Hoamweh Lung
2024 Mi cuerpo es un animal
2024 Accidental Animals