Our desire to consume is an instinctive one, but consumption does not belong to the body like digestion. In the eyes of society, we are reduced to “a consuming force whose agency depends on draining, exhausting, annihilating the world which it turns into its own body”. With the short film My Want of You Partakes of Me, internationally recognized artists, filmmakers and writers Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner question the threshold between bodies and their surroundings in a historical, social, and political context. Revealing digestion as a fundamental condition to exist in the world, this essay film invites the viewer to reconsider one's sense of self, what has been lost and gained through metamorphosis and decay.

Weaving the subjective vision on the poetics of incorporation into the grander narrative of imperial conquest, the effects of industrialisation and biological adaptation, the personal merges with the political. Reflections on the matter of ethical digestion are approached through thought-provoking prose, citations of literary works and academic research, providing the core for this meditative and visually striking essay film. In a world that desires us to consume, to digest is an act of intellectual, poetic and much needed resistance.