Art Matters / Moving Images: A Cage Named Garden

Join Filipa Ramos, co-curator of this year’s Tate programme A Cage Named Garden, Survey of Artists Films at the Zoo, for a special screening of Brazilian artist Ana Vaz’s film It Is Night in America (66 mins) and French artist Sonia Levy’s short For the Love of Corals (23 mins).

Set in the sprawling, modernist metropolis of Brasília, Ana Vaz’s film It Is Night in America documents the reduced territory of Brasília’s native animals, losing their habitats to an ever-encroaching human population—in a subtle critique of settler colonialism.

For the Love of Corals is a cinematic exploration that examines the daily efforts involved in nurturing endangered species to rescue them from the brink of extinction caused by human activity. At the Horniman Museum and Gardens in London, a dedicated team of marine biologists and aquarists, spearheaded by Jamie Craggs, has launched Project Coral—an innovative initiative aimed at breeding corals in captivity.

Considering the crossover of a field between social science and cinema, the screenings will be followed by a discussion between Filipa Ramos and Sonia Levy on how animals and artists collaborate with one another, in this delicate dance between wilderness and civilisation.