Festival ECRÃ
of Experimental and Art and Cinema
LYCANTHROPY
Lycanthropy
Janaina Wagner
Brazil, France
2022
Film
Short Film
Lycanthropy is an essay on the atonement of the werewolf figure, a creature molded as a scapegoat to outline cruel acts perpetrated by humanity throughout history. Narrated by the moon over the course of one night, different allusions to the werewolf are embodied by a wolf, a woman and a man. Combining fiction and documentary, the film is composed as a collage of different types of images: 16 mm, internet, engravings, literary excerpts and anonymous testimonies.
The werewolf, a hybrid being, operates by moving around the limits of reality and invention, of lies and truth, of the history of stories: it is an amalgam that merges the human and the animal into a single image, operating as an accessible bridge to investigate civilizing processes of domination throughout history.
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edition
7th ECRÃ Festival
date and
time
BOTAFOGO STATION
29/06
16H
duration in min
27
debut
Rio de Janeiro Premiere
classification
indicative
12 years / Not recommended for children under twelve years old / Not recommended for children under twelve years old
content
Nudity / Nudity
tags
art, hybrid documentary, student
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Janaina Wagner
Janaina Wagner (São Paulo, 1989) develops her research in video, drawing, photography and installations. The focal point of her work is the relationships of limit, control and containment that humans establish with the world. Currently a PhD student at Le Fresnoy-Studio National des Arts Contemporains (FR), she has participated in several artistic residencies, such as Gasworks (UK), VISIO - European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images (IT), FID Campus – Festival International de Cinema de Marseille (FR), Bolsa Pampulha (BR), PIMASP - Museu de Arte de São Paulo (BR), Red Bull Station (BR), Casa Tomada (BR) and Anarcademia W139 (NL). Among her main exhibitions, the following stand out: With burning love - Villa Belleville (FR) and Decoupage/ Chronicle of an announced end - Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto – MARP (BR); and the collective exhibitions Ensaio de Tração - Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (BR), Garganta - CIAJG - José de Guimarães International Center for the Arts (PT), Aliens are temporary - Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien (DE), Casa Carioca - MAR - Rio de Janeiro Museum of Art (BR) and 4th EDP Prize in the Arts - Instituto Tomie Ohtake (BR). Wagner has participated in several national and international film festivals, such as Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes (BR), Festival do Rio (BR), 25 FPS festival (SL), Encounters Film Festival (UK), Vienna Shorts (AT) and Short Waves (PL) and is currently developing his first feature film, the experimental documentary A Mala da Noite.
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