Her Name Was Europa (2020) dir. Anja Dornieden Juan David Gonzalez Monroy

No doubt it is an unusual idea to resurrect a dead animal. The quote is from Lutz Heck, a German zoologist, author, and friend of Göring, who dreamed of resurrecting the aurochs, an ancestor of modern cattle. Shot on shimmering blackandwhite celluloid, this droll, endearingly handmade essay explores attempts past and present to bring this extinct beast back to life: is science just another ideology Like the two sets of film stock used to shoot the same procedure, the different covers of Hecks book or the vast rainforest housed in a hangar: a copy can impress, deceive or seduce, but the original is something else entirely. (James Lattimer for Documenta Madrid)