Short Film program & Panel Discussion
Interspecies Love Song
10.14 | Sunday, 3pm | New School - Kellen Auditorium
The film program will be followed by a panel discussion with filmmakers Anna Lindemann (Ant Sisters) and Jessica Beshir (Hairat), dolphin cognition and communication scientist Diana Reiss, and moderator Davida Smyth (Associate Professor of Biology at The New School).
In the complex web of interactions that make up life on earth, communication across species lines is common and essential. Predator-prey and symbiotic relationships loom large, but there are also many less obvious variations on these themes. Humans form unlikely bonds with the animal kingdom, flowers deploy elaborate systems of semaphore to entice pollinators, and other species sense and interact with those around them by means we can only begin to imagine. This program is a love song to nature, to all that we are losing or have lost to extinction, and to the surprising ties existing between us all.
Film Program (TRT 78 min):
Attraction (Emily Scaife | 5 min | UK | 2017)
Hairat (Jessica Beshir | 7 min | Ethiopia / Mexico / USA | 2016)
Ant Sisters (Anna Lindemann | 4 min | USA | 2018)
Animal Behaviour (Alison Snowden & David Fine | 14 min | Canada | 2018)
Becoming (Jan van IJken | 6 min | Netherlands | 2017)
Out of Sight (Su Rynard | 7 min | Canada | 2018)
Wolves from Above (Demelza Kooij | 6 min | Scotland | 2017)
To Get in Touch With Crows (Rhona Muehlebach | 7 min | USA | 2016)
The Tasmanian Tiger (Vergine Keaton | 13 min | France | 2018)
See Weeds (Dawn George | 3 min | Canada | 2017)
De Natura (Lucile Hadzihalilovic | 6 min | Romania | 2017)
Attraction (Emily Scaife | 5 min | UK | 2017)
Hairat (Jessica Beshir | 7 min | Ethiopia / Mexico / USA | 2016)
Ant Sisters (Anna Lindemann | 4 min | USA | 2018)
Animal Behaviour (Alison Snowden & David Fine | 14 min | Canada | 2018)
Becoming (Jan van IJken | 6 min | Netherlands | 2017)
Out of Sight (Su Rynard | 7 min | Canada | 2018)
Wolves from Above (Demelza Kooij | 6 min | Scotland | 2017)
To Get in Touch With Crows (Rhona Muehlebach | 7 min | USA | 2016)
The Tasmanian Tiger (Vergine Keaton | 13 min | France | 2018)
See Weeds (Dawn George | 3 min | Canada | 2017)
De Natura (Lucile Hadzihalilovic | 6 min | Romania | 2017)
