My Want of You Partakes of Me

Filmmakers Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner are joined by author Elvia Wilk for a conversation about their oeuvre.

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 is on view as part of the 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. The filmmakers will 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, Litvintseva and Wagner share a deep interest in historical excavation as a means of engaging the present moment, and will expand on the many meeting points between their work across genres.