My Want of You Partakes of Me
In collaboration with Beny Wagner
Film (54 minutes) and 2-channel installation, 2023
My Want of You Partakes of Me interrogates digestion as the fundamental condition for being in the world, a process of physiological, psychological, spiritual, literary and political dimensions. Multiple storylines trace the poetics of incorporation as a matter of metamorphosis and decay, the philosophy of matter and imperial conquest, industrialisation and annihilation, poetry and parenting, love and citation.
Credits:
Written and directed by Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner
3D Animation: Jason Ramanah
Sound Design and sonic composition: Tom Fisher / Action Pyramid
Camera: Sasha Litvintseva
Original Score: Beny Wagner
Color grading: Anna Barsukova
Featuring: Roisin Tapponi, Petra Cox, Sam Keogh, Onyeka Igwe, Tai Shani, Daisy Lafarge, Shelby Prichard, Katherine Spence, Jason Ramanah, Tom Fisher, Adriana Hamelton, Moontaha Mahbub
This work was realized in part within the framework from the European Media Art Platform residency program at IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture] with support of the Creative Europe Culture Programme of the European Union. Additional support came from the South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership, University of Southampton, Queen Mary University London.
Jury statement - Special Mention New:Vision Competition, CPH:DOX: “A philosophical yet poetic exploration of becoming, which warps into mind and body, inside and outside, soil and territory, literature and history, and even into love. A visually daring and innovative film.”
Awards:
Jury Special Mention New:Vision Competition, CPH:DOX
Screening list:
Tate Modern, London, UK, 2023
CPH:DOX, NEW:VISION competition, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2024
Curtas Vila Do Conde, Portugal, 2024
Vilnius Documentary Film Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2024
Science New Wave Festival, New York, USA, 2024
Interseccion festival, A Coruna, Spain, 2024
Bogota Experimental, Columbia, 2024
World Film Festival of Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand, 2024
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2024
Jewellers gallery, Morecambe, UK, 2024
SET Kensington gallery, London, UK, 2024
Exhibition list of 2-channel installation:
Ars Electronica, Austria, 2023
Sonic Acts Biennale, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2024
Onassis Stegi, Athens, Greece, 2024
CCA Glasgow, Sonica, Glasgow, UK, 2024
M-Cult Museum, Finland, 2023
LABoral centro de arte, Gijon, Spain, 2024
Galeria do Paco, gnration, Braga, Portugal, 2024
RIXC Center for New Media Culture, Riga, Latvia, 2024