We Bites Us

• Studio: Karolina Kucia
• Directed By: Karolina Kucia
• Year: 2023
• Runtime: 17 min.
• Country: Finland
• Languages: English language
• Captions: English captions
• Date Added: 2024/10/11
• Performers: Esete Sutinen, Fjolla Hoxha, Marié Grace Iradukunda, Outi Condit, Roxana Sadvokassova, Vishnu Vardhani Rajan

Director's Statement The idea for the film stems from the experience of the post-communist generation faced with the resurgence of the extreme right. It is anchored in the moment of now, of which the past is still morphing. In the carnal coexistence of "former" people, in the uncontrollable and indecent growth of an unpredictable body, something is still missing. Something is out of place. This film also stems from a fascination with monstrous and parasitic relationships and power structures, mutations, shifts in positions. It is constructed through double/paradoxical paradigms. We worked with two cinematic devices, a cinematographer and a robot/camera, sometimes operated by gyroscopes, placed on an actor's body. The idea of working with artificial intelligence was to allow a kind of minor perspective, a little lost "artificial stupidity" and clumsiness, instead of a dream of futuristic technoluxury. We Bites Us is a portrait of the collectivity: complex, difficult, dark, but also joyful and unpredictable. It is full of hilarious humour, but it is not just a funny film. The image, the story and the apparatus of its making are precise, analytical, and constructive.