animistica

In our digital age, the boundaries between still and moving photography, and between animated and live-action footage, are becoming ever more blurred and indecipherable. Nikki Schuster plunges us into a continuous, impossible “flow” that has been constituted from the incessant morphing of macro-photographed, static details: insects, fluids, hair. Adding to this hypnotic artifice is an elaborate sound design composed from clicks, groans and roars. animistica is a film well in tune with current ecological speculation on the anthropocene, and all the other types of life that lie beyond the strictly human realm. (Viennale)