Film and Live Performance: Intersections (2025) | MÍMESIS (Dreams, animals and tuning forks) (2024)

This is a screening accompanied by a live performance. Intersections Julián Galay | Argentina | 2025 | 84 min | PG Guided by a dream that he cannot fully recall, Galay explores the relationship between institutions, cities and the natural world in this delicate, non-linear film. By night and half-light, he maps Buenos Aires through university labs, museums and zoos. Interviews with scientists about consciousness, perception and memory alternate with footage of animals and their activities, disrupting human-centred perspectives, while proposing alternative forms of intelligence and resonances between species. Though guided by science, the film foregrounds intuition, the sonic and the sensorial as crucial ways of constructing knowledge. Fragments from Galay’s research diaries are woven throughout the work, creating further dialogue between personal, collective and ineffable viewpoints. A sound design that layers music, diegetic sound and field recordings shapes our experience of the film into an act of listening as much as looking. MÍMESIS Julián Galay | Argentina, Germany | 2024 | 45 min | No Rating MÍMESIS is a performance lecture that consolidates six years of research about the relationship between animals and institutions that Galay conducted for his film Intersections. Personal reflections are interwoven with artistic and scientific theories in a poetically associative way, accompanied by site-specific resonant vibrations performed by the artist. The polyphony of sounds and voices created invites the audience to participate in a moment of solidarity by thinking and listening. Galay draws connections between the artistic representation of animals and the history of language, as well as between the presence of acoustic phenomena in nature and evolved forms of communication. Dreams and the unconscious become a place where humans, animals and other species can find common ground through their memories and lived realities. In Galay’s conception, mimesis is more than representation through imitation – it is a creative practice that generates new ways of being and imagining.