It Matters What (2019) dir. Francisca Duran

Absences and translations motivate this experimental animation in an exploration of the methods and materials of reproduction and inscription. The inquiry is set within a framework of practical and critical human relationships with otherthanhumanspecies elucidated by the theorist Donna Haraway. A fragment from Haraways essay Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene is reworked here as a poetic manifesto. Enigmatic foundfootage calls into question human violence over animal species. Plant life is both the subject matter of the images and assists the means of photographic reproduction. The techniques used include incamera animation, contact prints and phytograms created by the exposure of 16mm film overlaid with plant material and dried for hours in direct sunlight. Best Local Film Award, Alucine Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2019