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PERVADING ANIMAL

Graeme Arnfield
UK, 2021
31 min

Equal parts systems literacy and kaleidoscopic ecological fantasia, Pervading Animal is a film about butterflies, computer viruses and all the things they touch.

By infecting his own computer with viruses to capture their effects, Graeme Arnfield explores the environment as seen through a psychedelic digitized lens that distorts visual perception, overloads the senses and makes us see the world in a holographic, pixelated trance. A barrier between what we perceive as a natural given, namely nature, and our questionable desire to transform it. Pervading Animal tells the unearthed, peculiar story of AIDS, one of the earliest examples of computer ransomware. By exploring its origins and creator, the director urges us to consider a default, unaltered state of being. When man-made viruses are spread into the wild out of sheer curiosity, a question arises: who is the real virus? (Emil Vasilache)

Date and Location

28th of September, 18:30, Cinemateca Eforie

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Graeme Arnfield

Graeme Arnfield (b. 1991, UK) is an artist, filmmaker, curator and composer living in London, raised in Cheshire. Producing sensory essay films from networked imagery, his films use methods of investigative storytelling to explore issues of circulation, spectatorship and history. Research topics include: the politics of digital networks, the distribution of ecological matter such as peat and asbestos and the adaptive circulation of global and local histories. His work has been presented worldwide at Berlinale Forum Expanded, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Courtisane Festival, Open City Documentary Festival, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Sonic Acts Festival, European Media Arts Festival, Transmediale, IMPAKT Festival, Kasseler Dokfest, Plastik Festival, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, LUX.

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