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Dirty Resilience

Terra Incognita: Dirty Resilience

Exploring intersections of volcanoes, art, and human ambition through the Feminist Land Art Retreat’s dismantling of masculine land art and Werner Herzog’s odyssey into the perilous pursuit of the forbidden.

Poster Pvd T Aileen Ye Terra Incognita
The choice to juxtapose these two volcanic films may seem binary, but instead this combination aims to spark discussion on the allures of nature and the lens of entertainment through which we often view it, despite what it may cost us (i.e. death). These films invite us to reconsider the perceptions of violence and natural phenomena, and how societal constructs shape our responses to the world around us.

Programme

  • poster Heavy Flow (Feminist Land Art Retreat, DE 2015)

    Heavy Flow (Feminist Land Art Retreat, DE 2015, 14’)

    Heavy Flow brings the relationship between the body and nature into dialogue with the language of capitalist entrepreneurialism by superimposing a self-help style of narration, instructing the listener on how to take a successful headshot. The film doubly critiques both the historic masculinity of the Land art tradition and subsequent feminist responses to it by ironically invoking essentialist links between women and nature, specifically relating flowing lava to menstrual blood.

    Opening with the powerful line “Create an image”, the film offers a tongue-in-cheek suggestion that the binary tropes of second-wave feminism have become branded and commodified for today's market. (source: Barbican Centre)

  • poster The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia & Maurice Krafft (Werner Herzog, FR/GB/CH 2022)

    The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (Werner Herzog, GB/US/CH/FR 2022, 84’)

    On June 3rd, 1991, Kyushu, Japan, a tsunami of ash and rock descended at over 100 mph from the peak of Mount Unzen consuming everything in its path.

    Forty-three people were killed, including journalists and local fire and rescue teams. Also killed were Maurice and Katia Krafft, the legendary French volcanologists who filmed volcanoes and risked their lives to shoot the most spectacular eruptions of the 20th century.

    The Kraffts left an archive of over 200 hours of footage, unprecedented in its spectacular and hypnotic beauty. Werner Herzog who had access to the entire archive, created a film that cannot be categorised. It is not a biography. It is a cinematic requiem.

The films in this programme are either spoken or subtitled in English.

Details

Production year

2024

Length

108 min.

Event language

English

Country

NL

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Programmers of the Future 2024

Three new Programmers of the Future will present their film programmes in Eye Filmmuseum this July. With films against despair, a colourful trip through the human psyche through animated films, and cinema that sharpens your senses.

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still Heavy Flow (Feminist Land Art Retreat, DE 2015)
still The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (Werner Herzog, GB/US/CH/FR 2022)
still Annea Lockwood: A Film About Listening (Sam Green, US 2021)

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Programmer of the Future Aileen Ye selected seven films to watch at home: listening to the wind, a mountain that remembers, lava like blood in a landscape. Several films can be viewed for free.

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