29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

24. 10.–2. 11. 2025
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It Matters What

It Matters What

Francisca Duran / Canada / 2019 / 9 min.


synopsis

A smiling woman in a 1932 film fragment holds a dead owl by the wings. This piece of experimental animation refers to a pathological relationship between humans and animals. A moving series of images is decomposed and shattered by a violent gesture. Using the interventions of digital, chemical and physical processes, it transforms human cruelty into a disappearing memory, an abstract painting sprinkled by flowers.

biography

Francisca Duran (1967) is a Chilean-born multimedia artist based in Canada. She is involved in making experimental film, videos and installations. Duran combines digital and analogue media in her treatments of the topics of history, memory and violence. Her films include: Mr. Edison´s Ear (2007), Hemisphere (2011) or Gift of a Dream (2020), among others.

more about film

director: Francisca Duran

Film at festival

festival edition:2021
section:Fascinations: Roots
language:English
subtitles:English

Info

director:Francisca Duran
original title:It Matters What
country:Canada
year:2019
running time:9 min.

Festival partners

Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
Creative Europe Media
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms

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