Simon Grab & Francesco Giudici - Forest Spirit [official video by Aline d'Auria]

Описание: Artist Aline d'Auria reinterprets rare footage of wolves in their natural habitat shot by Belgian film director Yves Amand. Originally a captured as a study of wolves' behavior, Aline d'Auria kept the edited structure of the material, but removed color information and added repetition, thus highlighting the wolves' behavior and the social structure of the pack, which defines clear roles for each animal.

Aline d'Auria's film offers a glimpse into the lives of wolves during a cold winter. Foggy landscapes and raw nature provide the backdrop to intimate shots of a pack of wolves - a symbol of strength, instinct and perfection in humans' perception of nature, and thus often a (questionable) role model for our own behavior. Multitudes of stories and interpretations, immediately humanised through our lenses, unfold: solitude, cruelty, love, solidarity and rejection come to mind. As the film progresses the question arises whether those observations are actually present, or merely interpretations in the viewers' mind.

The 14-minute short film accompanies Simon Grab & Francesco Giudici's track «Forest Spirit» from their album «[No]Surrender» on -OUS.

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Aline d’Auria is a Swiss-born photographer and film director living in Chiasso, Switzerland. She studied photography at the School of Applied Arts in Vevey and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and holds a degree as a designer in Visual Communications with specialisation in video from the Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD).
Her artistic research is dedicated to the most fleeting sentiments of the human soul, revealing them in an undertone, delicately and respectfully. Places become an emotional mirror of a humanity from which Aline d’Auria tries to harness the most intimate thoughts, while at the same time seeking to avoid violating them. Her films have been selected and have received prizes from International Film Festivals and are part of the collection of the New York Tribeca Film Institute Reframe Collection and the Vienna International Media Centre.

She is a co-founder of the cultural association Grande Velocità and the co-working space Spazio Lampo, based in Chiasso and she co-curated their artistic program until 2021.

Website: https://alinedauria.ch/