My Want of You Partakes of Me| Film Screening + Discussion | 20 June 2025 | 18:45| Filmhuis Den Haag
June 20 @ 18:45 - 20:45
We are delighted to host a screening of this film by Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner in conjunction with Filmhuis Den Haag. The screening will be followed by a discussion and Q&A moderated by filmmaker and researcher Bo Wang.
My Want of You Partakes of Me
(2024) 54 mins – by Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner
The film interrogates digestion as the fundamental condition for being in the world, a process of physiological, psychological, spiritual, literary and political dimensions. Multiple storylines trace the poetics of incorporation as a matter of metamorphosis and decay, the philosophy of matter and imperial conquest, industrialisation and annihilation, poetry and parenting, love and citation.
The film was awarded the Jury Special Mention New: Vision Competition, CPH:DOX.
About the filmmaker
Dr. Sasha Litvintseva is a London-based artist, filmmaker, and writer whose work since 2018 has been shaped by her ongoing collaboration with Beny Wagner. Her films have screened internationally at major festivals including Berlinale, Rotterdam, CPH:DOX, RIDM Montreal, Punto de Vista, and Edinburgh International Film Festival, among many others.
Her work has also been showcased at prominent art institutions such as Tate Modern, ICA London, Museum of the Moving Image (NY), Seoul Mediacity Biennale, and Mumok Vienna. She has been the subject of retrospectives at venues like Courtisane Festival, UnionDocs NY, and e-flux Screening Room.
Sasha’s films have received numerous international awards, including the Sylvestre Award at IndieLisboa and Best Short Documentary at the Guanajuato Film Festival, and have been longlisted for an Academy Award. Her work is distributed by Square Eyes and the Criterion Channel, and has been featured in Cahiers du Cinéma, Sight & Sound, Frieze, and Filmmaker Magazine.
She holds a BA in Fine Art from the Slade School of Art and a PhD from Goldsmiths. Currently a senior lecturer in film at Queen Mary University of London, she was awarded the 2024 Philip Leverhulme Prize. Sasha is the author of Geological Filmmaking (2022) and co-author of All Thoughts Fly: Monster, Taxonomy, Film (2021), with writing also appearing in e-flux and Environmental Humanities.
Discussant
Bo Wang is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher based in Amsterdam, as well as a member of ReCNTR’s Advisory board. His works have been exhibited internationally, including at the MoMA, Guggenheim Museum, Garage Museum, CPH:DOX, IFFR, Visions du Réel, LUX, Open City Documentary Festival, Courtisane, Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Sonic Acts, Eye Filmmuseum, Sesc_Videobrasil, Sharjah Film Platform, among others. He is a recipient of major international awards, including New:Vision at CPH:DOX, Golden Dove at DOKLeipzig, and Best Doc Short at Sharjah Film Platform. He received a fellowship from the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar in 2013, and was an artist-in-residency at the ACC-Rijksakademie from 2017 to 2018, as well as at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore in 2016. He is a PhD candidate at ASCA, University of Amsterdam.
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Image Credit: Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner My Want of You Partakes of Me (2024)
