Sara Bonaventura's Chronoscope Debuts at Anthology Film Archives

Italian videomaker Sara Bonaventura (born 1982 in Treviso) will present her new short film Chronoscope at New York's Anthology Film Archives on May 9, 2017, as part of the World of Nature program curated by Lili White. The screening follows her 2015 debut at the same venue with Moonbow thief in the NewFilmmakers section. Chronoscope explores the ecological concept of 'happy degrowth' (decrescita felice) through the lens of entropy and the second law of thermodynamics applied to consumerist economics. The artist argues that indiscriminate energy extraction from the planet increases ecosystem disorder and deprives future generations. The film uses a chronoscope device to 'look backward,' questioning whether the past can reveal more than assumed. A butterfly serves as a fragile symbol of a self-organized, self-regulated, metamorphic natural system. Bonaventura hand-painted approximately one thousand frames for the animation.