Weaving around a theory of immortality based on the premise that our lives are a summation of all the information we consume and process, gleaned from existing theories from a number of disciplines, the film draws on my personal history's brush with a global nuclear disaster, to precipitate a meditation on the potential role of an individual in the imaginary film/event of our individual or collective death: as a protagonist or an extra appearing in a handful of frames at the very moment of...
Short film , Experimental
UNITED KINGDOM | 13 minutes | 2014
Evergreen explores the crisis of grand narratives in the face of the photographic image. It is a self-deconstructing story of an immortal traveller’s indefinably temporal/spatial journey through inhabited theme parks and museums, islands of time, abandoned cities. A civilization’s perpetual struggle for perfection and unquenchable documentation of itself, as if driven by knowledge of its looming demise. Heritage as spectacle, spectacle as heritage, nature as both.
Feature film , Experimental
UNITED KINGDOM | 50 minutes | 2014
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