The Fish Knows Everything - Film Program

Saturday 19th

Title: To Speak on Behalf of the Living
By: Joe Sartorius & Katinka Versendaal, Duration: 29' + Artist talk

A short film aiming to understand the last remaining fishermen of the Northern European rivers and wetlands as custodians of these ecosystems and their more-than-human inhabitants.

Fishermen of the German river Elbe, the narrow inlet Schlei and the Dutch wetlands areas Weerribben Wieden and Biesbosch speak about their way of living, their relations to these bodies of water, their observations of decades of ecological changes and how their multigenerational embodied knowledge of the area is entangled with the wellbeing of the local ecosystems and its beings. They discuss the tension between caring, fishing, and eating; their reciprocal relationship and how some current water management systems and natural conservation methods are in contradiction with their ways of being.

Sunday 20th

Title: My Want of You Partakes of Me
By: Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner, Duration 54’ ​


My Want of You Partakes of Me interrogates digestion as the fundamental condition for being in the world, a process of physiological, psychological, spiritual, literary and political dimensions. Multiple storylines trace the poetics of incorporation as a matter of metamorphosis and decay, the philosophy of matter and imperial conquest, industrialisation and annihilation, poetry and parenting, love and citation.

Zaterdag 26 oktober

Title: Ama-San
By: Cláudia Varejão, Duration 112’


A dive, the midday sunlight filtering down through the water. The air in her lungs has to last until she can dislodge the abalone. Dives like these have been carried out in Japan for over 2000 years by the Ama-San.