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Floor projection at the Four Domes Pavilion, 18th Wro Media Art Biennale in Wroclaw, Poland. On display May - December 2019. Click the image for video.
Wolves From Above wins the Jury Award at Ann Arbor Film Festival 2019.
Hettie Judah reviews the exhibition And Say The Animal Responded? at FACT Liverpool for The Guardian, 12th of August 2020.
Click the image above for more information and scroll down in the link to access video coverage, reviews, and a virtual tour of the exhibition.
Click the image above to view trailer.
Click the image above to see the installation at Alchemy Film & Arts Nov 2019.
Photo credit: Park Swan, Image provided by MMCA Seoul, South Korea.
Click image for video coverage.
Photo credit: Park Swan, Image provided by MMCA Seoul, South Korea.
Floor projection at the Four Domes Pavilion, 18th Wro Media Art Biennale in Wroclaw, Poland. On display May - December 2019. Click the image for video.
Wolves From Above wins the Jury Award at Ann Arbor Film Festival 2019. Hettie Judah reviews the exhibition And Say The Animal Responded? at FACT Liverpool for The Guardian, 12th of August 2020.
Click the image above for more information and scroll down in the link to access video coverage, reviews, and a virtual tour of the exhibition.
Click the image above to view trailer.
Click the image above to see the installation at Alchemy Film & Arts Nov 2019.
Photo credit: Park Swan, Image provided by MMCA Seoul, South Korea. Click image for video coverage.
Photo credit: Park Swan, Image provided by MMCA Seoul, South Korea.Wolves From Above (5'40'', 2018)
SYNOPSIS //
Wolves From Above is a meditation on a pack of wolves filmed from the air. The elusive animals inhabit a tranquil space where sounds of playful growling, sniffing, and licking feel oddly nearby. Many interactions take place in the video – it is evident that the wolves are communicating, but we as human viewers are not sure what is happening. The film draws the spectator in and allows the viewer to discover a different wolf.
The film is available for screening in a traditional cinema setting as well as a floor or ceiling projection.
Demelza in conversation with Finnish national broadcaster YLE for the evening news. Click image for video.
Click here for a written report (in Finnish).
AWARDS //
Winner Jury Award at Ann Arbor Film Festival 2019
Nominated for Best Doctoral Film at AHRC Research in Film Awards 2019, UK
Nominated for New Alchemist Award at Festival du Nouveau Cinéma 2018, Montréal, Canada
REVIEWS //
The Guardian reviews the exhibition And Say the Animal Responded? with four stars. Click image to access the article.
The State Of The Arts in conversation with curator and FACT director Nicola Triscott.
PAST SCREENINGS & DISPLAYS //
Museum of Contemporary Art [M HKA] – Mar 2018, Antwerp, Belgium
Le Manège – Mar 2018, Maubeuge, France
Le Casino: Forum d'Art Contemporain – Mar 2018, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Center for Multimedia Production [CEZAM] – Mar 2018, Podgorica, Montenegro
La Nuova Pesa: Centre for Contemporary Art – Mar 2018, Rome, Italy
41st International Wildlife Film Festival – April 2018, Montana, USA
34th Hamburg International Short Film Festival | Mo Friese – 6-7 June 2018, Hamburg, Germany
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma – 3-14 Oct 2018, Montréal, Canada
Imagine Science Films – 12-19 Oct 2018, New York, NY, USA
Planet in Focus – 25-28 Oct 2018, Toronto, Canada
The Nunnery Gallery – 30 Oct-25 Nov 2018 selected for the Melanie Manchot programme, London, UK
57th Ann Arbor Film Festival – March 26-31 2019, Michigan, USA
Internationales Frauenfilmfestival Dortmund | Köln 12 April 2019, Germany
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art [MMoCA] – Rooftop Cinema – 28 June 2019, Madison, USA [Ann Arbor tour]
BF Artist Film Festival – The Gregson Lancaster – 9 July 2019, Lancaster, UK
GIV – Vidéos de Femmes dans Le Parc – 29 July 2019, Parc Lafontaine Montréal, Canada
BF Artist Film Festival – SET London – 30 July 2019, London, UK
Ulju Mountain Film Festival 울주세계산악영화제 – 6-10 Sept 2019, Ulsan, Korea
DAÏMÔN artist centre – 12 sept 2019, Gatineau Ottawa, Canada
Cinema Forum – 7 November 2019, Warsaw, Poland
18th Wro Media Art Biennale – 15 May-December 2019, Wroclaw, Poland
Forage/Image exhibition series at Alchemy Film and Arts – solo display, 16-29 November 2019, Hawick, Scotland
Tabačka Kulturfabrik – 23 November 2019, Košice, Slovakia
Kyoto Art Centre – 13 Jan 2020, Kyoto, Japan
Ann Arbor District Library – 10 Feb 2020, MI, USA
aCinema – 6 March 2020, Milwaukee, WI, USA
The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art [MMCA] Seoul, South Korea – 4 Sept-25 Oct 2020, part of the exhibition: Museum for All, Museum for Dogs. This is an exhibition made for dogs and their human companions, curated by Yonghee Sung. Click here for more information.
FACT Liverpool, UK – 12 August 2020-14 February 2021, part of the exhibition And Say The Animal Responded? curated by Nicola Triscott.
Muratcentoventidue – 29 May-Aug 2021, Bari, Italy
Finnish Museum of Photography – Oct 2021-Jan 2022, Festival of Political Photography, Helsinki, Finland
ONLINE //
Labocine – Mar 2019, magazine issue #32 A Modern Bestiary
Labocine – Aug 2023, magazine issue #85 Dog Days
CREDITS //
Directed by – Demelza Kooij
Producers – Lucie Tremblay, Anita Norfolk
Drone Cinematography – Joris Cottin
Sound Design and Foley – Lars Koens
Sound Recording – Demelza Kooij
Thank you – Gilles at Parc Mahikan/Aventuraid, Girardville, Quebec/Canada where all filming took place, Julien and Eliot Gravelle, Liverpool John Moores University.
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