The voice of Myanmar political activist merges into animal anatomy while self recognition is formed by modes of digestion. A pairing of films unfolds many layers of body, physical body and political body, that investigates the fluidity of human body being constantly recast and transformed by worldly conditions.
Curated by Pathompong Manakitsomboon
Myanmar Anatomy
Director: Prapat Jiwarangsan
Year: 2023
Countries: United Arab Emirates, Thailand
Language: English
Runtime: 22 min
This essayistic exploration of Myanmar’s history is presented in three chapters and rooted in three locations: Yangon Zoological Gardens, the Yangon Circle Railway, and the Drug Elimination Museum. The stories behind these sites are juxtaposed with the voices of Myanmar activists who were forced to flee the country. The collage of voices and places is layered with a series of moving images of animals emancipating themselves from the zoo and roaming the city of Yangon.
My Want of You Partakes of Me
Directors: Sasha Litvintseva, Beny Wagner
Counties: United Kingdom, Netherlands
Language: English
Runtime: 54 min
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.
