A subsequent fulfillment of a pre-historic wish
“A subsequent fulfillment of a pre-historic wish” is a film produced by Austrian filmmaker Johannes Gierlinger, 16mm, Stereo, 9:23 min, 2015.
Yusimi Moya Rodriguez contributed with recorded dance scenes and a narrator’s voice to this production.
Movie poster and film still © Johannes Gierlinger.
The film is about a female artist who died in a dubious accident. Connected in time through the layers of rituals, nature, death and fragments of remembrance, a narrator searches for her and a lost artwork and finds nothing more than pieces of a broken memory. The film revolves around Ana Mendieta, deals with the question of body, spirituality, fleeing and belonging and relates to political realities. A connected track, a time loop, between the death of an artist and the question of death and losing within the historical and present politics. A film in search for the traces of a baffling death.
The film was shown in screenings and exhibitions. For more information about this project see the website of artist and filmmaker Johannes Gierlinger.