A brother and sister are hibernating. Only the sister wakes up. A thought experiment equal parts sci-fi and meditation, shot in searing images. A film about human nature if it had been different, blurring the boundary between people and animals. From a speculative research project about a hypothetical society where human beings are a species that sleeps during the three months of winter, artist Cornudella crafts a richly textured, tenebrous, alternate reality, rendered through documentary and fiction’s tools.
The Human Hibernation
Anna Cornudella Castro
2024
Spain
91’