Biography, a work that moves between animation and expanded cinema, is based on collages made from engravings by the Basque artist Chumy Chúmez and explores the transition from homo universalis to homo industrialis. Pioneering in its use of color and widescreen format, the film evokes the atmosphere of a magic lantern projection. It revisits the psychoanalytic myth of Oedipus ‒the desire for the mother and the law of the father‒ revealing the latent ideological structures of the modern world. The title, split into “Bio-graphy” emphasizes the act of writing upon life, suggesting more a “thanatography” than a simple narrative of life.
