ICONOPLAST (mockumentary)
different versions, color, 16/9, HD (rotoscope, stop motion, digital animation)
Directed by Sara Bonaventura
Soundtrack by Gianmarco Leprozo aka Presente
Co-produced with Adiacenze Gallery
“Imagine alien visitors arriving on Earth in the remote future.”
The idea that symbiosis, the living together and sometimes merging of different
species of organisms, is crucial to the evolution of life forms on Earth,
is the underpinning concept of this work.
Jan Zalasiewicz’s The Earth after us, and the seminal Lynn Margulis’ Microcosmos
inspired this mockumentary (e.g. the voice over, a re-adaptation of them, where past tense verbs are turned
into future tense, embedding the fantasy of a future already set as past).
Featured On/Screenings:
Cannes Film Week, Experimental Films, online streaming on Whush, 2025
Doc.Sydney, Documentary Film Festival, Sydney, Australia, 2024
The Anthropocene Project, curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, Alphabet Art Centre, Koln, Germany, 2024
Repair, curated by the Miami New Media Festival, WG Kunst, Amsterdam, 2024
Schleswig Holstein Film Festival, Blickfang, Kiel, Germany, 2024
Simultan Festival, Corneliu Miklosi Museum, Timisoara, Romania, 2023
Visible Evidence XIX – Documentary Ecologies 2023, FilmForum, Udine, Itay, 2023
Annual Aarhus Film Festival, Aarhus, Denmark (bext experimental), 2023
Miami New Media Festival, Arts Connection Foundation Gallery, Miami, USA, 2023
Science Film Festival, Goethe-Institut in collab with 20 institutes in Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, 2023 (partner of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration)
GAIA festival, screening curated by Miden Festival, Kalamata, Greece, 2023
Marseille Underground Film and Music festival, Marseille, Videodrome2 Cinema, France, 2023
Stories of water // Shapes of water, co-curated by M. Martini, OnCurating Project Space, Zurich, Switzerland, 2023
Art speaks out – videos for our climate, ikonoTV at COP27, online and Sharm el Sheikh, 2022
Nature & Culture – International Poetry Film Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2022
IDKF 2022 – Exhibition, Stuttgart, Germany, 2022
Inner reflection / Time refraction, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of, 2022
International Videoart Forum, Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 2022
VIDEOAKTION #3, Berlin, Germany, 2022
Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image, Johnson City, NY, US, 2022
G Biennale – International Film Festival – Best Experimental, Melbourne, Australia, 2022
Elipsis: Cinematographic Arts and Sciences International Meeting, CDMX, Mexico, 2022
Pleasure Dome w/ Counterarchive, with Q&A, Toronto, Canada, 2022
CAOS museum, Terni, Italy, 2022
Performing Media Festival, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend (Indiana), US, 2021
Fiber Festival – Short Film Programme, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2021
Here you can have an insight on the entire ICONOPLAST in progress ecosystem.