A subsequent fulfillment of a pre-historic wish

 

“A subsequent fulfillment of a pre-historic wish” is a film produced by Austrian filmmaker Johannes Gierlinger, 16mm, Stereo, 9:23 min, 2015.

Yusimi Moya Rodriguez contributed with recorded dance scenes and a narrator’s voice to this production.

Movie poster and film still © Johannes Gierlinger.

Movie poster and film still © Johannes Gierlinger.

The film is about a female artist who died in a dubious accident. Connected in time through the layers of rituals, nature, death and fragments of remembrance, a narrator searches for her and a lost artwork and finds nothing more than pieces of a broken memory. The film revolves around Ana Mendieta, deals with the question of body, spirituality, fleeing and belonging and relates to political realities. A connected track, a time loop, between the death of an artist and the question of death and losing within the historical and present politics. A film in search for the traces of a baffling death.

A subsequent fulfilment of a pre-historic wish is a Film about an female artist who died in a dubious accident. Connected in time trought the layers of rituals, nature, death and fragments of remembrance, a narrator searchs for her and a lost artwork and finds nothing more then pieces of a broken memory. The film revolves around Ana Mendieta, deals with the question of identity, spirtuality, fleeing and belonging and relates to current politics. A connected track, a time loop, between the death of an artist and the question of death and losing within the historical and the present. A Film in search for the traces. Festivals/Screenings/Exhibitons (Selection): Mumok Cinema - Museum of Modern Art Vienna - You've Seen Me Before, 2015, Austria Diagonale Film Festival - Innovative Film Competition, 2016, Austria Edinburgh International Film Festival - Black Box Section, 2016, UK Pravo Ljudski Film Festival Sarajevo, 2016, Bosnia and Herzegovina L'Alternativa, Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona, 2016, Spain Doku.Arts - Essaydox Berlin, 2016, Germany Austrian Cultural Forum New York - AASFF Filmfestival, 2016, USA Filmtage Galerie Blaugelbezwettl 2016, Austria Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de La Plata 2016, Argentina Transcinema Festival Internacional de No Ficción Lima 2016, Peru Marfici - Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Mar del Plata 2017, Argentina Unexposed Film Festival 2017, USA Cairo Video Festival 2017, Egypt Experimental Film Festival Process Riga - Essayfilm Section 2017, Latvia Artefact Moscow 2017, Russia Proceso de Error - International Festival of Experimental Film Valparaíso 2017, Chile Cineteca PUCV Valparaíso 2017, Chile Kurzfilmkeller HFBK Hamburg 2017, Germany La Muestra Internacional de Cine SURMIC, 2017, Chile International Student Triennial Marmara University Istanbul 2017, Turkey Aricadoc - Muestra de Cine Documenta at Universidad de Tarapacá 2017, Chile Museo de Arte Moderno Chiloé, 2017, Chile Kling & Bang Gallery 2017, Iceland The Reading Room Bangkok 2017, Thailand Temporal Disorder - Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, 2017, Germany (Solo) Museos de Medianoche at Museo de Arte Moderno Chiloé, 2017, Chile Oktoskop, 2018, Austria Body + Camera Festival Mana Contemporary Chicago, 2019, USA
 

The film was shown in screenings and exhibitions. For more information about this project see the website of artist and filmmaker Johannes Gierlinger.

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