Animus Femina
The Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme is pleased to host an event focusing on the documentary film Animus Femina, with its director Éliane de Latour and Sara Labrousse, whose work is featured in the documentary.
Animus Femina is a socially conscious documentary that explores our relationship with living things through the eyes and actions of Sara Labrousse, Marie-Pierre Puech, Isis Olivier and Francine Génieux, four women with a deep connection to wildlife.
Bears, wolves, ibex, bison... under the winter sun. An ancient dream is revived by four women who are trying to repair the broken bonds between humans, animals and territories. A biologist in Antarctica, a wildlife veterinarian in the Cévennes, an animal artist, a forest dweller in Asturias: through their unique actions, they are forging a different relationship with the world based on care, presence and interdependence. Animus femina highlights a lucid and committed feminine relationship with living beings, questioning our models of domination and proposing alternative narratives. Accompanied by a captivating soundtrack composed by Piers Faccini, this sensitive and embodied cinematic narrative captures the signs of ecological change and the power to act.
- Éliane de Latour is an anthropologist (emeritus research director at the CNRS and EHESS), author, and director who has conducted her work in France, Africa, and India. Through documentary and fiction films, photography, and scientific and literary writing, she explores the closed worlds of those who are pushed back behind physical or social boundaries.
- Sara Labrousse is a research fellow at the CNRS (LOCEAN). She studies penguins and seals in Antarctica, sentinels of oceanic chaos. Faced with persistent denial, luxury cruises and the collapse of ecosystems, she raises the alarm while examining the carbon footprint of her own science. Together with others, she seeks more sustainable methods in the hope of a more ethical relationship with living beings.
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