My Want of You Partakes of Me
54' | 4K DCP | 5.1 | 2023
Single channel film and 2-channel installation
UK / NL
My Want of You Partakes of Me interrogates digestion as the fundamental condition for being in the world, a process of physiological, psychological, spiritual, literary and scientific dimensions. Multiple storylines trace the poetics of incorporation as a matter of metamorphosis and decay, the philosophy of matter and imperial conquest, industrialisation and annihilation, poetry and parenting, love and citation.
Credits:
Written and directed by Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner
3D Animation: Jason Ramanah
Sound Design and sonic composition: Tom Fisher / Action Pyramid
Camera: Sasha Litvintseva
Original Score: Beny Wagner
Color grading: Anna Barsukova
Featuring: Roisin Tapponi, Petra Cox, Sam Keogh, Onyeka Igwe, Tai Shani, Daisy Lafarge, Shelby Prichard, Katherine Spence, Jason Ramanah, Tom Fisher, Adriana Hamelton, Moontaha Mahbub
Distribution: Square Eyes
Jury statement - Special Mention New:Vision Competition, CPH:DOX:
"A philosophical yet poetic exploration of becoming, which warps into mind and body, inside and outside, soil and territory, literature and history, and even into love. A visually daring and innovative film."
Awards:
Jury Special Mention, New:Vision Competition, CPH:DOX 2024
Screenings:
Tate Modern, London, UK 2023
CPH:DOX, NEW:VISION competition, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2024
Exhibition (2 channel installation):
Spell of the Sensuous, W139, Sonic Acts Biennale, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2024
Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, 2023
Press:
Review: Metropolis M
This work was realized in part within the framework from the European Media Art Platform
residency program at IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture] with support of the Creative Europe
Culture Programme of the European Union. Additional support came from the South, West and
Wales Doctoral Training Partnership, University of Southampton, Queen Mary University London.
