Animal Cinema: Emilio Vavarella's Non-Human Perspective at Torino Film Festival
At the last Torino Film Festival, Emilio Vavarella (born 1989 in Monfalcone) presented Animal Cinema, a short film compiled from five years of YouTube videos showing animals interacting with GoPro cameras. The work challenges human-centric creativity and perception, drawing on Eisenstein's montage and Soviet avant-garde cinema. Eleven animal species appear as 'actors' in the etymological sense of 'agents,' experiencing technology that becomes a non-human eye, echoing Vertov's kino-eye theory. Vavarella, a multimedia artist and Harvard researcher, avoids the label of director, using video to explore non-anthropocentric audiovisual experiences. The film is part of his solo exhibition Re-Capture: Room(s) for Imperfection, curated by Federica Patti, which opened November 18 at Galleriapiù in Bologna. The exhibition includes three projects linked by curiosity toward non-human approaches in artistic production.
Key facts
- Animal Cinema is a short film by Emilio Vavarella.
- It was presented at the Torino Film Festival.
- The film is a collection of YouTube videos showing animals interacting with GoPro cameras.
- The collection spans five years.
- It features eleven animal species.
- The work references Eisenstein's montage and Vertov's kino-eye theory.
- Vavarella is a multimedia artist and researcher at Harvard.
- The film is part of the exhibition Re-Capture: Room(s) for Imperfection at Galleriapiù in Bologna.
- The exhibition opened on November 18 and is curated by Federica Patti.
Entities
Artists
- Emilio Vavarella
Institutions
- Harvard
- Galleriapiù
- Torino Film Festival
Locations
- Monfalcone
- Italy
- Bologna