Minimal Sway While Starting My Way Up

As an intelligent elevator discovers the world, we get to know the invisible links between extreme heights –the mega-tall tower, speculative object and symbol for social, cultural and economical domination– and extreme depths –the deep mine, place of natural wealth extraction and colonial exploitation. As doubts, fears and desires melt in the consciousness of the elevator, existence becomes a battle to justify itself.

Director Biography

Stéphanie Lagarde (born in Toulouse, FR in 1982) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Paris. Her works deal with strategies of occupation and the organization of space throughout systems of objects, languages and human beings. She exhibited in venues such as Plato Ostrava, Czech Republic; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; Frei_raum Q21 MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Austria; Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia; Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany; Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. Her videos have been showed in festivals such as IFFR (Rotterdam), BISFF (Beijing), Berlin Atonal, Videonale (Bonn), Transmediale (Berlin), EMAF (Osnabrück), DOKLeipzig, Kasseler Dokfest, KFFK (Koln), November Festival (London). She won the Grand Prize at BIEFF 2019 (Bucharest) and the International competition award of Short Waves Festival 2019 (Poznan, Poland).

Director

Stéphanie Lagarde

Country

Netherlands

Language

English

Subtitles

English

Year

2021

Duration

16

Meta-versus-me

Friday, 10 June 16:30 - 18:00 / Kijkhuis 2
90 min.
Sunday, 12 June 14:30 - 16:00 / Kijkhuis 1
90 min.

Also in this session

1. Mindset
Veronika Schubert, 6
2. Our Ark
Deniz Tortum, Kathryn Hamilton, 13
3. VO
Nicolas Gourault, 19
4. Virtual Voice
Suzannah Mirghani, 7
5. Minimal Sway While Starting My Way Up
Stéphanie Lagarde, 16
6. Agrilogistics
Gerard Ortín Castellví, 21

National Competition

Friday, 10 June 18:30 - 20:00 / Kijkhuis 2
90 min.

Also in this session

1. Our Ark
Deniz Tortum, Kathryn Hamilton, 13
2. Minimal Sway While Starting My Way Up
Stéphanie Lagarde, 16
3. Hantu
Kim Kokosky Deforchaux, 19
4. Heat Waves
Kent Chan, 21
5. Silent Heat
Luciënne Venner, 18
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