A Venture into Vegan Filmmaking

A Venture into Vegan Filmmaking

2020 · 3 min

16mm filmstock is the starting point for A Venture into Vegan Filmmaking, for which Josephine Ahnelt and Esther Urlus set out to prove that vegan film emulsions are possible, replacing gelatine with PVA. The result is a visceral, textural image from the past and the future.

Directed by Josephine Ahnelt

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