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The animal that therefore I am

“What does the animal see when it looks at me?” Three animals and a woman in an enclosed space. As they study each other, their own methods of communication create a wordless conversation. We view them in close-up and from various perspectives, with the woman as a solitary species in this universe.

  • Bea de Visser
    Director
  • Bea de Visser
    Writer
  • Bea de Visser
    Producer
  • Erin Hill
    Key Cast
    "woman"
  • Hertog
    Key Cast
    "bold eagle"
  • Onida
    Key Cast
    "wolf dog"
  • Alexandra
    Key Cast
    "rabbit"
  • Adri Schrover
    Camera
  • Diego van Uden
    sound
  • Ranko Paukovic
    soundmixage
  • Barend Onneweer
    colorgrading
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    L' animal que donc je suis
  • Project Type:
    Short, Other
  • Runtime:
    10 minutes 37 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 22, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    22,500 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Netherlands
  • Country of Filming:
    Netherlands
  • Language:
    English, French
  • Shooting Format:
    digital 4K
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1:235
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • IFFR, International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019
    Rotterdam
    Netherlands
    January 24, 2019
    Worldpremiere
    nomination "VOICES short"
  • Stockholm Independent Film Festival 2019, Sweden
    Stockholm
    Sweden
    May 12, 2019
    award: "Best Arthouse Film"
Distribution Information
  • Anotherfilm
    Country: Netherlands
Director Biography - Bea de Visser

Bea de Visser is recognized for her film art, installation work and sound
performances. In her work she questions elementary issues with a social undercurrent, poetical in nature, based on conceptual design, by alternative narration, in a cinematic language.

Bea de Visser attended the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (1993-1995). Prior she pursues her studies painting with a study electroacoustic sound. She initially began her career as a sound and performance artist in the trendy club scene and artist’s spaces early 1980-ies. With her installation work she was asked for international exhibitions in museums, art spaces and galleries, including MoMA
New York, National Museum Prague, Madrid, Pittsburgh and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Her films are screened at international film festivals worldwide.
Bea de Visser leads to date the independent studio Anotherfilm that nowadays works as a platform for scenario and film development.
She is a lecturer at the University of the Arts, Utrecht.

Films by Bea de Visser include: A Breath Hush (1996, short), Another Another, (1999, short) The Barren Land (2001, short), Roses and Fall (2006, short), The Second Memory (2004, short), Just a Minute Yoko (2004, short), Mama Superfreak (2009, short), Chairs Missing (2011, short) The animal that therefore I am / l’Animal que donc je suis (2019, short).
Installations include: The Skipping Mind (1994, art installation), Blink (1997, art video),Vanya (2005, art video), Blowup (2002, art video)

Short films VIMEO.com/beadevisser, album: short films
If you want to see the entire film instead of a fragment, please contact me
Installations, performances, video scenery: VIMEO.com/beadevisser, album: installations

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Director Statement

The world will become a better place if we are able to give up the priority position of man and look around us as a human animal that is capable of meeting other species on foot of equivalence.