Becoming Animal

Hacerse Animal
Emma Davie, Peter Mettler
Switzerland, United Kingdom
2018
78'
Spanish Premiere
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Description

"Nature sees itself through our eyes," explains philosopher David Abram in this brilliant three-part essay. The captivating and almost tactile images get interrelated sensorially as the reflections get dispersed out, providing us insight into a philosophy in which intuition, phenomenology and a critique of anthropocentrism are the pillars of thought and life. (DV)

Awards and festivals

- CPH:DOX - Dox Award Competition (2018)

Biography of the director

Peter Mettler
Living and working between Canada and Switzerland, he melds intuitive-associative processes with drama, essay, experiment or documentation. A strong supporter of independent creativity, he has collaborated with numerous filmmakers, artists and musicians including Atom Egoyan, Fred Frith, Robert Lepage, Andreas Züst, Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, Michael Ondaatje. His films and collaborations continue to hold a unique position within cinema and other disciplines, also resulting in works such as live image/sound mixing performance, photography and installations. Meditations on being, Mettlers films transform the inner worlds of their characters and audience alike, into sensorial cinematic experience.

Emma Davie
She has made a wide variety of documentaries for national and international broadcasters and most recently directed a feature documentary called I Am Breathing with a fiction filmmaker, Morag MacKinnon. This film was nominated for 3 Scottish BAFTA’s, won a Scottish BAFTA for Best Director and played in over 50 countries.

Previous work includes
What Age Can you Start Being an Artist? for Channel 4 which was shortlisted for a Grierson; Gigha. Buying Our Island and Flight which was a co-production with Canada while also pursuing more experimental work herself such as 71ºN, a co-production with Norway. She currently teaches at Edinburgh College of Art where she is head of Film and TV and supervises many documentaries.

Image gallery
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Finished
Sessions

May

Wednesday 9

  • 20:00 h
  • Cineteca. Sala Azcona
  • Q&A with Emma Davie and Peter Mettler

Thursday 10

  • 19:00 h
  • Cineteca. Sala Borau
Data sheet
Director
Emma Davie, Peter Mettler
Language
English - Subtitled in Spanish
Screenplay
Emma Davie, Peter Mettler
Cinematography
Peter Mettler
Editing
Peter Mettler, Emma Davie
Sound
Jacques Kieffer, Peter Mettler
Music
AtomTM, Thomas Tallis, Gregorio Allegri, Frank Bretschneider a.o.
Producción
Cornelia Seitler, Rebecca Day, Brigitte Hofer, Sonja Henrici
Contact
Maya Galluzzi - Maximage - Neugasse 6. - 8005, Zürich - (Suiza) - +41 44 274 88 66 - mgalluzzi@maximage.ch
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