11.11.2023, 21:00, Maxx 2
EN UT + Q&A
12.11.2023, 16:30, Maxx 3
EN UT + Q&A
Jyoti Mistry’s archival trilogy on race, gender, and sexuality deals with the racialization of Black masculinity and racist violence, intersectional sexism and femicide, queer sexuality and love. The footage is drawn from colonial archives, travelogues, and amateur films to create poetic visual forms that comment on historical and contemporary violence and our political consciousness. By layering animation with the archival footage, the works produce visceral experiences that invite dialogue. Language that disempowers and marginalizes one group over another exposes the social and political structures that continue to oppress groups of people.
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Black Man
Jyoti Mistry / South Africa 2017 / 10'43" / DCP / colour/black & white / English / Doc/Exp
A Black man is running through a field. A Black man is running on the beach. A Black man is running through a city. The Black man is always running, he is always chased, he keeps running… Running to save his life. A Black man is running towards freedom.
Cause of Death
Jyoti Mistry / South Africa/Austria 2020 / 20' / DCP / black & white / English / Doc/Exp
Women’s bodies are always at risk. An autopsy report describes the physical impact on the body that results in death, but it hides the structural and recurrent violence on women’s bodies that leads to femicide. Through archival footage, animation, and spoken word poetry, the film exposes the experience of structural violence against women.
Loving in Between
Jyoti Mistry / Austria/South Africa 2023 / 18' / colour/black & white / English / Doc/Exp
Between birth and death is the power to love and live. Political rules, religious orders, social norms, and cultural taboos control who we love and how we love. The right to love is controlled and regulated by how we live. But the erotic has the power to emancipate. With spoken word and archival footage, love is unboxed from categories in queer expression and a celebration of eros as the power to change our attitudes to life and to allow others to live their lives without judgment or prejudice.