Films by Sasha Litvintseva

Germany 2020, 24 min
by Beny Wagner, Sasha Litvintseva

A Demonstration is a poetic exploration of the boundaries of sight and the metamorphosis of form. The history of Western science offers a story of how these boundaries have been negotiated, and the film’s point of departure is a uniquely ambiguous chapter in this history. Late Renaissance attempts to classify the natural world introduced taxonomies of monsters alongside more prosaic taxonomies of animals, plants and minerals. The fantastical collaging of human and nonhuman forms, understood as m