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Loving in Between

Jyoti Mistry
Austria / South Africa
18’

Between birth and death is the power to love and live. Political rules, religious orders, social norms and cultural taboos control who we love and how we love. The right to love is controlled and regulated by how we live. But the erotic has the power to emancipate. With spoken word and archive sources, love is unboxed from categories, in queer expression and a celebration of eros. 

If in Cause of Death (2020) Jyotri Mistri explored female corporeality (and violence against the female body) through archival footage, often drawing on medical imagery, in Loving in Between, the South African auteur continues her explorations in a radically different tone: playful, cheeky, flirting with surrealist animated inserts that swoop over the footage like a Hitchcockian flock of birds. Mistri undertakes a satirical interrogation of gender roles and white racial identity, fully exploiting the humorous and subversive potential of a “heavy” subject like love — and the appetizers include everything from sunbathing bodies or sex in public spaces to the small indulgences of private space. (Flavia Dima)

Screening date and location

September 28th, 9:00 PM, Cinemateca Eforie

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Awards & Festivals

Jyoti Mistry

Born in Durban, South Africa, Jyotri Mistri works with film as an interplay between cinematic traditions and installation art. Her films have screened at festivals including Toronto, Winterthur, Rotterdam and Durban and in exhibitions at Kunsthaus Zürich, Museum der Moderne Salzburg and Kunsthalle Wien. She has been artist in residence at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam and the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and was a member of the International Short Film Jury at the 68th Berlinale. She is currently professor for film at the University of Gothenburg.



  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • Spoken Word: Napo Masheane, Kgafela oa Magogodi
  • Director: Jyoti Mistry
  • Idea/Concept: Jyoti Mistry
  • Script: Jyoti Mistry
  • Composer: Nishlyn Ramanna
  • Editing: Nikki Comninos
  • Sound Design: Peter Cornell
  • Animation: The Kinetic None, Stephen Galloway, Jano Booysen
  • contributor script: Napo Masheane, Kgafela oa Magogodi
  • Colour Correction: Alex May
  • Produced by: Süd Nord Film, Blackboard Trust None
  • Executive Producer: Florian Schattauer

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