Donna Haraway is a prominent scholar in the field of science and technology, a feminist, and a science-fiction enthusiast who works at building a bridge between science and fiction. She became known in the 1980s through her work on gender, identity, and technology, which broke with the prevailing trends and opened the door to a frank and cheerful trans species feminism. Haraway is a gifted storyteller who paints a rebellious and hopeful universe teeming with critters and futuristic trans species, in an era of disasters. Brussels filmmaker Fabrizio Terranova visited Donna Haraway at her home in California, living with her – almost literally, for a few weeks, and there produced a quirky film portrait. Terranova allowed Haraway to speak in her own environment, using attractive staging that emphasised the playful, cerebral sensitivity of the scientist. The result is a rare, candid, intellectual portrait of a highly original thinker.
1h 30min
EN > NL / FR
Meet the artist after the film on 27/05
Written & directed by Fabrizio Terranova
Image Tristan Galand
Sound Nicolas Lebecque
Film editing Bruno Tracq
Sound editing Frédéric Fichefet
Music Laurent Baudoux & The Fan Club Orchestra
Special effects & animation Patrick Theunen
Sound mix Cyril Mossé
Advice & translation Isabelle Stengers
Production manager Ellen Meiresonne
Presentation Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Beursschouwburg
Production Atelier Graphoui (Brussels), CBA – Centre de l’audiovisuel (Brussels), Spectre Productions (Rennes), Fabbula (Barcelona), Rien à Voir (Brussels)
Supported by Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Centre de l’Audiovisuel à Bruxelles, Kunstenfestivaldesarts
Fabrizio Terranova , who lives and works in Brussels, is a film-maker, activist, dramaturge, and teacher at the Ecole de Recherche Graphique in Brussels, where he launched and co-runs the master’s programme in Récits et expérimentation/Narration spéculative (Stories and experimentation/Speculative narrative ) . He is the author of Josée Andrei, An Insane Portrait , an experimental documentary that was turned into a book published by Les Editions du souffle. He is also a founding member of DingDingDong – an institute to jointly improve knowledge about Huntington’s Disease. He has just published the article Les Enfants du compost in the joint publication Gestes spéculatifs (Les Presses du réel, 2015).
