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Devin Horan

The Animals Are Sick With Love

Fiction expérimentale | hdv | couleur | 47:41 | USA, Géorgie | 2023

From the slaughter-bench to blessedness - Human sacrifice and the meaning of the earth - The congested planet is moaning, boxes all over the world are moaning - But - have you heard - the good news?

Devin Horan worked at Lithuanian filmmaker Sharunas Bartas’ Studio Kinema on the crime road-film Eastern Drift (Indigene d’Eurasie) (Berlin Forum section 2010). After that he made his first film, Boundary (2009), which was named one of the top ten films of the last decade in Cinemascope’s poll “The Decade in Review”. His next film, Late and Deep (2011), premiered in the Horizons section of the 68th Venice Film Festival and was nominated for the Berlin National Gallery’s Preis für Junge Filmkunst (Young Film Art Award) in 2013. Akra (2017), a surreal black comedy, was filmed in Tbilisi and Imereti, Georgia, with an international cast and crew, starring mostly Georgian actors. He was the editor of Pages of Natural History, directed by his long-time collaborator Margherita Malerba, which premiered at the 30th edition of FID Marseille International Documentary Festival, and he is currently co-writing and editing her new film The Book of Hours. Grodek was a film in two versions. The first premiered again in IDFA’s Paradocs in 2014. The new version premiered at the 33rd FID Marseille Festival in 2022 in the Flash Competition. He is also a visual artist whose work has been published in two books by Infinity Land Press. The Animals Are Sick With Love was finished in July 2023. He also has a massive visual art project entitled Insomnia of Worlds which will slowly become public beginning in autumn 2023. Since 2018 he has been teaching courses in directing, screenwriting, and subversive cinema at the Caucasus School of New Cinema, the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs, and Free University in Tbilisi, and at the Moscow and St. Petersburg Schools of New Cinema. He is also teaching an ongoing series of public courses in Tbilisi called The Act of Seeing, Found Footage Cinema, The Call of the Wild, The Forest Passage, Fascinations, and Adventures. (https://www.facebook.com/DocumentaryCourseSeriesTbilisi)