Ingresso Animali Vivi

2023

documentary/short film

14.30 min

Do animals born in captivity dream of freedom? Are they aware they are bred to be a product? These are some of the radical questions raised by Igor Grubic in his latest experimental film, part of the project Do Animals…? started in 2017 in the frame of RAVE- East Village Artist Residency. Shot at night inside a former slaughterhouse in the North East of Italy, Ingresso Animali Vivi (Live Animals Entrance) is a hybrid artwork between documentary and fiction in which the protagonist, the dog Bjork, is the only animal which came in and out alive from this spectral structure witness of horrors. The non-human point of view chosen by the artist intends to demonstrate the feeling of compassion and empathy between the pet and those animals instead destined from birth to become products for our tables whose ghosts hover in this “factory of death”. Through the insertion of animated flashes that interrupt the flow of this deadly path and an electronic and distressing sound, Grubic creates a horror film atmosphere aiming to stimulate the viewer’s conscience in the face of the evident failure of the anthropocene and the urgent need to reassess our speciesist position. ‘Ecology is the new class struggle’ (B. Latour).