IT MATTERS
25”, color, 16/9, hand processed found footage, 2023
Hand processed by Sara Bonaventura during a workshop with Peter Lichter at Analogica

Reconstructing matter as having dynamic agency between a structuralist loop and a quote,
this analogue short is a tribute to Donna Haraway and her seminal “Staying with the trouble”,
evoking women labour in the knitted content of the textual image: the frame depicts women hands knitting
and is manipulated and scratched with knitting needles by my own hands.
The nature of matter itself is a problem for women (and a core concept for materialist feminist theory).
Thus the choice of non-camera film is somewhat political, realized with anonymous found footage, which I hope suggests that
knowledge is indeed a fragmented, dynamic, multi-layered, embroidered quilt, as much as matter.

Featured On/Screenings:
L’Alternativa, Participatory Microcurts Bodies Hall, CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània Barcelona (ES), 2024
RPM 24 Revolutions Per Minutes Festival Festival, Boston Goethe Institute, Boston (US), 2024