The Mosquito Requiem

The Mosquito Requiem
There is an insect older than us. It was here before the first field was enclosed, before the first border was drawn, before fear had a body to live in. The film begins from this quiet displacement, from the recognition that the human is not the measure of what happens on this planet, only one of its temporary forms.
The Mosquito Requiem thinks through the mosquito rather than about it. The bite, usually imagined as theft, is closer to a deposit, an exchange the body does not even feel. Around this small and unfelt event the film opens outward, toward the particles that pass through us from stars that no longer exist, toward matter that arrives from elsewhere and goes on shaping what is alive, without asking and without being noticed.
A requiem is a mass for the dead. Here it becomes a way of admitting that ending is not the opposite of life but its condition. The film does not mourn the world so much as try to look at it without the consolation of standing at its center.

Supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council

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The Mosquito Requiem
Jestvuje hmyz starší než my. Bol tu skôr, než bolo ohradené prvé pole, než bola narysovaná prvá hranica, než strach dostal telo, v ktorom by mohol prebývať. Film vychádza z tohto tichého posunu, z poznania, že človek nie je mierou toho, čo sa na tejto planéte deje, ale len jednou z jej dočasných podôb.
The Mosquito Requiem nemyslí o komárovi, ale skrze neho. Bodnutie, zvyčajne predstavované ako krádež, má bližšie k vkladu, k výmene, ktorú telo ani nepocíti. Okolo tejto malej a nevnímanej udalosti sa film otvára navonok, k časticiam, ktoré nami prechádzajú z hviezd, čo už neexistujú, k hmote, ktorá prichádza odinakiaľ a naďalej tvaruje to, čo je živé, bez pýtania a bez povšimnutia.
Requiem je omša za mŕtvych. Tu sa stáva spôsobom, ako pripustiť, že zánik nie je opakom života, ale jeho podmienkou. Film nadnáša svet skôr, než aby ho oplakával, a pokúša sa naň pozrieť bez útechy, ktorou je stáť v jeho strede.

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