It Matters What

director: Francisca Duran

original title: It Matters What

country: Canada

year: 2019

running time: 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.