Art Matters / Moving Images: A Cage Named Garden
Thu 31 OctJoin 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.
About Filipa Ramos
Lisbon-born Filipa Ramos, Ph.D., is a writer and curator whose research focuses on how culture addresses ecology. She is Lecturer at the Institute Art Gender Nature in Basel, curator of Art Basel Film and founded the online artists’ cinema Vdrome. She edited Animals (MIT Press/Whitechapel, 2018), curated Animalesque (2019) (Baltic, Gateshead), and in 2024 she curated Bestiarium, the Catalan Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale
Tate Modern screening of A Cage Named Garden, Survey of Artists Films at the Zoo is scheduled on Wednesday 30 October at 18.30 with films by Patrick Godard, Roman Selim Khereddine, Jeannette Muñoz and Simone Forti, followed by a Q&A between the Filipa Ramos and the filmmakers.
This event is organised in partnership with Tate Modern
