Circles

September. 21,2023

Rating：

5.5

Genre：

Keywords：

Experimental Environmental Digital

Trailer Synopsis Cast

Using the opening paragraphs of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay of the same name as a point of departure, Circles employs lofi environmental textures to explore concepts surrounding circularity, sight, and the passage of time. Its world is flickering in and out of existence. It begins with footage of recognizable spaces and objects and gradually transitions into ever more manipulated, glitchy and transparently artificial and abstracted images. Textual interludes put the film in conversation with the viewer, contextualizing its images and their aged digital patina.

Similar titles

Plasticized

PLASTICIZED is a film that places the viewer aboard a transatlantic expedition, as if one of the crew, revealing the unembellished evidence that the human footprint has reached every corner of the earth, even if we have not been there. Despite rumors of massive garbage islands, an immeasurable amount of plastic pollution of all sizes is floating throughout every major ocean in the world. With the numerous ghost nets of trash or larger windrows of rubbish dominating the the occasional headlines, tiny bits of plastic particulate from frail chunks is the overwhelming contaminant that is secretly infiltrating all levels of sea life like a cancer.

See Detail

Plasticized 2011

Platform

Jess confronts a piece of her past on the platform…

See Detail

Platform 2023

Burning Batteries

In the tradition of experimental genres such as the cut-up, collage, permutation, altered book, & erasure poem, ‘Burning Batteries’ dissects the idea of the book in both a literal & philosophical way. Books are usually thought of as 2D, static, fixed pieces of historically relevant narratives – ReVerse Butcher wants you to (re)think books as contested spaces for possible intervention, creative agency, & rebellion. She sees books as multi-layered places where multiple meanings hide behind the illusion of being locked-in by consensus reality.

See Detail

Burning Batteries 2023

Twin City Twist

A silent dance documenting a brief visit to Minneapolis in the fall of 2022. A reflection on the sleeping city's tumultuous recent history through a recollected interaction and a plea for continued disturbance. An entry in an ongoing video and film series, Twin City Twist was shot on Kodak Tri-X reversal super 8 film with kaleidoscopic lenses. The film was scanned and edited digitally.

See Detail

Twin City Twist 2023

Chance Encounters With Oxygen

A psychedelic, avant-garde collage film designed to accompany PRPL PPL's experimental album of the same name.

See Detail

Chance Encounters With Oxygen 2021

An Angry Voice and One Who Cries

Monroe, an author, is trapped by their creation, Avery, in an anonymous basement. Avery attempts to extract further details of his existence from them and films the encounter, yet the prospect of having their thoughts exposed terrifies Monroe. This nightmare ends the only way it can: in violent confrontation.

See Detail

An Angry Voice and One Who Cries 2023