A DEMONSTRATION
A film by Beny Wagner and Sasha Litvintseva
2020 | 25 mins | Digital Video | Color | 25fps
“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. The word ‘monster’ comes from the latin ‘monstrare’, meaning to show, to reveal, to demonstrate. “A Demonstration” picks up on these themes in a poetic exploration of the boundaries of sight and the metamorphosis of form.
Awards:
2020 Nominated for Golden Bear best shortfilm, Silver Bear Jury prize & AUDI short film award. Berlinale shorts program - International Film Festival Berlin (DE)
2020 Nominated for Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis (DE)
2020 Best Visual Concept Award at Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Bucharest (RO)
Screenings:
2020 MIEFF, Moscow (RU)
2020 New Holland Island International Film Festival, St Petersburg (RU)2020 Still Voices Short Film Festival, Ballymahon (IE)
2020 Experimental Short - Guanajuato International Film Festival, Guanajuato (MX)
2020 Festival della Lessinia, Bosco Chiesanuova (IT)
2020 Screen 9 - Deep Rivers Run Silent (organised by NGO Meno Avilys (via Vilnius Film Festival) - Vilnius (LT)
2020 Solo Exhibition of A Demonstration - CIAP, Genk (BE)
2020 MODES - VIFF, Vancouver (CA)
2020 Explora Official Competition - Cortocircuito, Santiago de Compostela (SP)
2020 Intro, The Maze and The Lighthouse - Baltic Triennial 14, CAC Vilnius, (LT)
2020 Imagine Science Film Festival - New York (US)
2020 Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago (US)
2020 37th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel (DE)
2020 Part of the online exhibition 6x6 Project.
2020 Environmental Film Festival Australia (EFFA) - Melbourne (AU)
2020 Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival (BIEFF) - Bucharest (RO)
2020 Online screening in the framework of the New Nature conference series, in collaboration with the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) of New York, (US)
2021 Part of the Catalogue "German Short Films". (DE)
2021 London Short Film Festival, London (UK)
2021 Part of the exhibition program - Traverse Video Toulouse, Toulouse (FR)
2021 New Waves Competition - La Roche Sur Yon International Film Festival, La Roche Sur Yon (FR)
2021 Solo Exhibition of A Demonstration - CIAP, Genk (BE)
2021 Hybrid - Cutting Edge Canada, Hellerau/Mutek (CA)
2021 SHORT FILM COMPETITION of the 56th International Festival of Science Documentary Films Academia Film Olomouc, Olomouc (CZ)
2021 Prismatic Ground, New York (US)
2021 Exhibition organised by Environmental Film Festival Australia (EFFA) - Melbourne (AU)
2021 Spectacular Science - Alexandre Trauner ART/Film Festival (ATAFF) - Szolnok (HU)