DE GALLO QUI OVAVIT
Finland | 2023 | 15 min | bw/col.
According to the annals of the city of Basel, on August 4, 1474, an 11-year-old rooster laid an egg. This was seen as an act against nature, and therefore as a sign of the devil. The rooster had a trial and was sentenced to death. Nina Forsman departs from this episode to construct her De Gallo Qui Ovavit in which, with irony and sagacity, she describes how man has related themselves with the unusual event over the centuries. Through powerful and diverse archive footage, we embark on a journey throughout the centuries between basilisk’s eggs, village fairs, trials against the devil up to the most advanced technology that can now create eggs in a laboratory. The filmmaker’s voiceover guides us without offering a solution, but asking questions: what is natural and what isn’t? Is an egg laid by a cock ‘more natural’ than the manmade one? But, above all, what does ‘natural’ really mean? (c.c.)
Free Entrance
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 05 Nov 2024
- Time: 5:30
Location
- Cinema Astra - Piazza Cesare Beccaria, 9 50121 Florence (FI)
Organizer
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Nina Forsman
Nina Forsman (Helsinki, 1987) is a film director and editor. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Documentary Film from Aalto University and she has graduated as editor from Tampere University of Applied Sciences. Reflecting Ice (2019) was nominated for the Best Cinematography at the Camerimage Festival in Poland and won the Golden Kapok Award at the GZDOC Festival.
