This conversation takes as its starting point Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner’s most recent film, ‘My Want of You Partakes of Me’. The film, which was on view as part of the Sonic Acts Biennial 2024 exhibition at W139, is the third instalment of a trilogy. It proposes that digestion is a fundamental condition for organisms to be in the world, a process with physiological and psychological dimensions as well as spiritual and literary implications.

Told through a nonlinear, multiperspectival narrative, the film presents a political poetics of incorporation. Here the filmmakers engage in a close dialogue with author Elvia Wilk, who writes about corporeality, decomposition, and transformation through such diverse lenses as mediaeval mysticism, horror, and science fiction. Wilk was also the editor of Litvintseva and Wagner’s book ‘All Thoughts Fly: Monster, Taxonomy, Film’ published by Sonic Acts Press in 2021. Together the three share a deep interest in historical excavation as a means of engaging the present moment, and expand on the many meeting points between their work across genres.

25 February 2024 at Sonic Acts Biennial 2024