MOSKITOS
Susana Ojeda | Austria 2024 | 16 min. | No Dialogue
SATURDAY, 10.05. | 5:15 pm
De France, Saal 1 | TICKETS
Part of the Short Film Programm ISA I
In presence of Susana Ojeda
Mosquitoes whirr through a dystopian Viennese cityscape in which humans have lost their supposed supremacy. But mosquitoes, the relentless carriers of diseases such as Yellow Fever and Zika, live on here while a ritual ceremony initiates a spiritual journey into a future in which nature will have reclaimed the earth’s territory. Taken over by plants, the walls of the Weltmuseum Wien collapse. Vienna’s Prater and the University of Economics and Business are sinking into the mire.
MOSKITOS is a visual manifesto of an archaeology of a failed capitalist civilization.
Director: Susana Ojeda
Camera: Hubert Marz
Editing: Susana Ojeda + Hubert Marz
Sound: Sound recording: Bassano Bonelli, Sound design: Hannes Peyer
Production: Hubert Marz
SCREENINGS & AWARDS
Diagonale – Festival des Österreichischen Films (Österreich, April 2024)
Dotdotdot Open Air Kurzfilmfestival (Österreich, August 2024)
25 FPS Film Festival (Kroatien, September 2024)
Bideodromo Festival (Spanien, Oktober 2024)
Beijing International Short Film Festival (China, November 2024)Stuttgarter Filmwinter (Deutschland, Jänner 2025)
BIOGRAPHY
Susana Ojeda. Anthropologist, filmmaker and activist, explores decolonial and ecofeminist themes by exploring the connection to more than human beings and honoring ancestral knowledge in short films, installations and readings. As a feminist decolonial activist and co-president of the Association of Austrian Women Artists (VBKÖ) since 2023, she actively combines art and activism.
