Montag | 20.01.2025 | 19:00 h

Litvintseva & Wagner - Monsters and Measures

(kuratiert und präsentiert von Rita Macedo)
(anschl. Online-Q&A mit den Filmemacher*innen)

Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner are artists, filmmakers and writers working collaboratively since 2018. Focusing on moving image as a tool for the active production of new worlds, their practice has been driven by questions about the thresholds between the body and its surroundings, knowledge regimes and power, modes of organizing and perceiving the natural world.

From taxonomies of monsters at the heart of Early Modern European science, to shifts in the history of measurement standardization and their relationship to ideas of egalitarianism, agency, justice, and power, "Monsters and Measures" presents two film works that explore and reinterpret ways of seeing the natural world that are almost impossible to imagine from today’s vantage point.

 

Filmprogramm (65 min)

Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner - A Demonstration
25 min | 2020 | HD (16:9) | col | stereo | OVen

Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner - Constant
40 min | 2022 | 2K (16:9) | col | stereo | OVen

 

Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner - A Demonstration
25 min | 2020 | HD (16:9) | col | stereo | OVen
“A Demonstration” is a monster film with no monsters. Inspired by the existence of taxonomies of monsters at the heart of Early Modern European science, the film explores and reinterprets a way of seeing the natural world that is almost impossible to imagine from today’s vantage point. Early Modern naturalists were guided by a logic in which scientific truths were discovered through visual analogy. “A Demonstration” picks up on these themes in a poetic exploration of the boundaries of sight and the metamorphosis of form.

Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner - Constant
40 min | 2022 | 2K (16:9) | col | stereo | OVen
"Constant" is a journey through the social and political histories of measurement. The film explores three shifts in the history of measurement standardization, from the land surveying that drove Early Modern European land privatization, to the French Revolution that drove the Metric Revolution, to the conceptual dematerialisation of measurement in the contemporary era of Big Science. Each chapter traces the relationship of measurement standardization to ideas of egalitarianism, agency, justice, and power.

 

[ Abbildung oben: aus dem Film ‚Constant' (2022) von Litvintseva & Wagner ]