When one winter evening in 2022, Judith Zagury received a phone call alerting her that a herd had been spotted 200 meters from Gimel, in Switzerland, where she lives and works with her animals, she was shocked by her feelings of vulnerability. However, the founder of ShanjuLab, a theater research laboratory on animal existence, knows that wolves have returned to the Jura Vaudois after more than a century of absence: he has been conducting investigations on the subject for three years. Just know and “feel it in your stomach” are two very different things.
At bocca al Lupo, This documentary work resulting from fieldwork begins with the broadcast of this appeal. It’s like a confession of faith in art’s ability to make us think differently, through sensation and through trembling. Be afraid first. Then a great desire, coming from the depths of time, to see the wolf. Above the audience seated around the stage, screens of different sizes broadcast images captured by the video trap. Falling, thick snow, wind in the trees, magnifying the rough coat – wild boar. The films shown are not
