Extra Life (and Decay)
A film by Stéphanie Lagarde
2025 | 21 mins | Digital Video | Color | 25fps
A polyphonic narrator, filmmaker, parent, forest, insects, fungi, childcare worker, declare their absolute refusal of labor exploitation, and their necessity to join collective bodies in resistance.
Who ordered legibility? In an incantation to conjure authority, the film unfolds the connections between the inventions of nuclear families and managed forest plots as controllable normalized units. Extra Life (and Decay) celebrates hospitality as a survival tool to fight morbid politics of isolation. An ode to the multitude, the illegible, the unmeasurable.
Awards
2026 Grand Prix du jury étudiant - Festival de Films de Nancy, Nancy (FR)
Screenings
2025 Forum Expanded - Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Berlinale), Berlin (DE)
2025 Vanguardia y Género - BAFICI.26, Buenos Aires (AR)
2025 Main program & exhibition - Videonale.20, Bonn (DE)
2025 Niche Appeal - Onion City Experimental Film Festival, Chicago (US)
2025 The House Is A Hole - Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg (CA)
2025 Experimental Shorts - Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh (UK)
2025 EX-NOW 4 - EXiS - 22nd Experimental Film & Video Festival, Seoul (KR)
2025 Tectonics: Experimental Shorts - Climate Film Festival, New York City (US)
2025 Um, Womanhood - Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver (CA)
2025 Official Selection - ULTRACinema, Mexico City (MX)
2026 Efusing (Reproductive) Labour: Ecological Solidarities - Images Festival, Toronto (CA)
2026 Climate Film Festival Pop-up - Jeu de Paume, Paris (FR)
2026 Berlin Atonal, Berlin (DE)
2026 Sélection Labo - Festival de Films de Nancy, Nancy (FR)
2026 CUNY TV, New York City (US)
2026 From The Breach - Te Uru Contemporary Gallery, Auckland (NZ)
2026 Field Recordings, Rotterdam (NL)