How can solidarity with other living beings take place on a site where food is produced for humans?

The film limen weaves a story of interspecies collaboration and also its limits. Notes of materiality, and embodiment in situation and place are cultivated as receptors for multispecies signalling and knowledge production. It opens up current perspectives within biocyclic-vegan agriculture. Excerpts of farm visits are combined with an abstract compilation of theoretical inspirations. This work of ethnographic fiction invites the viewer to question conventional visuals and narratives often used to depict the lives of animals living on sites where farming takes place. Through the poetics of moving image and sound, there is a disruption to anthropocentric values within food production. Stories of soil life and farmers grappling with defining pests thematise entangled relations. While the view of the camera lens is intuitive and curious, the human perspective of the filmmaker is taken into consideration through the use of collage and DIY aesthetics. The current socio-ecological crisis poses an opportunity to acknowledge our interdependencies with other animals and those in the greater ecosystem.  An appeal to interrelationality based on Feminist Care Theory runs throughout the film.

Maneesha, Deckha (2021): Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders, University of Toronto Press, Toronto Buffalo London.
Mackenzie, C, Rogers, W, Dodds, S. (2014): Vulnerability: New Essays in Ethics and Feminist Philosophy, Oxford University Press.
Fineman, Martha A. (2008): The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition, Yale Journal of Law and Feminism.

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Screenings

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ANIMALS AND LANDSCAPES

Centre for Human Animal Studies (CfHAS)

Edge Hill University

Multispecies Storytelling Network

Liverpool, 2022

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BIOZYKLISH-VEGAN VERNETZUNGSTAGUNG

Ökohaus

Frankfurt, 2022

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WIEN WOCHE

agri_culture at Zukunftshof

Vienna, 2022

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MINDING ANIMALS,

der Berliner Landestierschutzbeauftragten

Berlin, 2022

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