SCYLOS
Experimental documentary film - 20 minutes, 2021
Selected for IFFR, Visions du Reel, ITGWO, Viennale
Collaboration with artist Maaike Anne Stevens - Producer, DOP, editor
Scylos is a meditation on the nature of classical logic, in which contradictory states cannot co-exist. The film is inspired by the life story of a character described in Herodotus’ Histories: the Scythian King Scylos, whose existence was split between his tribe of nomadic warriors and his civilised home in a Greek settler town. This double existence eventually led to his dramatic downfall. This contemplative film is composed from sequences shot in a small desert village on the edge of the Sahara in southeastern Morocco and at the IODP Bremen Core Repository, where thousands of deep-sea mud cores from all over the world are stored, sampled and analysed by scientists, who try to explain cycles of extinction and bloom in the history of the planet. In a mud core the whole of humanity is reduced to a speck of dust, and yet within each particle the cycle of birth, life and death is present.
SCYLOS
A film by Maaike Anne Stevens
Produced by
Maaike Anne Stevens
Peter Mann
With
Youssef Bouchedor
Alex Wülbers
And the voices of
Rixt Leddy
David Llewellyn Child
Director of Photography
Peter Mann
Editing
Maaike Anne Stevens
Peter Mann
Sound Design
Lennart Kleinen
KlevR Sound Design
Music
Anna-Maria Hefele
Kompositions No.1&2
Second Unit Director of Photography
Hatti Beanland