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Channel: MUBI · 2018 · Entertainment

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Defiantly shot on VHS and exquisitely lo-fi, FEMALE HUMAN ANIMAL explores both masculinity and the art world with darkly offbeat humour in this surrealist, underground thriller haunted by the ghost of Leonora Carrington: http://mubi.io/femalehumananimal
Substituting the sub- of “subconscious” with the sur- of “surrealism,” Josh Appignanesi’s new genre-bending documentary is a meditative exploration of psychic visuality. Shot on video, the film follows novelist Chloe Aridjis, as she curates a retrospective at Tate Liverpool on Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), a little known British surrealist who spent most of her life in Mexico. In the beginning of the film, the observative camera lingers on Chloe’s professional encounters with a comforting impartiality. But later the camera becomes a tool of intimation, as her infatuation with a mysterious man spirals down to the most abstract base of human desire. The presence of the camera provides in turn a grasp of reality and a descent into a dream-like state.

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