Female Human Animal
Synopsis
The Tate Gallery recently staged a retrospective of the surrealist Leonora Carrington (1917- 2011), famously the lover of Max Ernst. Novelist Chloe Aridjis, who knew the artist from her native Mexico, was made guest curator of the exhibition. Set between the real-life curation of the Tate show and something more fantasised, FEMALE HUMAN ANIMAL sees Chloe increasingly disappointed by her milieu - and increasingly haunted by Carrington’s strange artworks.
When an elusive, brooding man seems to offer more, Chloe begins to pursue him, but is she hunter, or hunted? Enabled by Carrington’s own defiantly mysterious mythology, she descends into a world of obsession.
Shot on a rare '80s video camera with a unique look, and deftly weaving fact and fiction, the film offers a darkly romantic fantasia of a woman who goes beyond societal norms, putting on screen the lurid unconscious of our new sexual politics.
Official Selection BAFICI Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival 2018 - World premiere
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Details
- Year
- 2018
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 75 mins
- Format
- Analogue Video formats
- Director
- Josh Appignanesi
- Producer
- Josh Appignanesi, Sam Dobbyn
- Executive Producer
- Jacqui Davies
- Editor
- Martin Macdonald
- Screenwriter
- Josh Appignanesi, devised with Chloe Aridjis
- Director of Photography
- Tristan Chenais; Additional Cinematographers: Ben Barber, Richard Dunton, Michael Hobdell
- Production Designer
- Erik Rehl
- Sound
- Thomas Blazukas, Morgan Muse, Sam Boulton
- Music
- Andy Cooke, Andy McCluskey
- Principal Cast
- Chloe Aridjis, Marc Hosemann, Patrick O'Kane, Angus Wright
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 14th March 2019
