Looking through a Glass Darkly

January. 04,2023

Rating：

5.5

Genre：

Drama

Keywords：

Avant-garde Experimental Cinema Art Installation

Trailer Synopsis Cast

An experimental media installation of three windows exploring fragments of liminality. Three unique re-constructions of experiential instances volumising the cataclysms of thresholds. Experience the absence of definition, the absence of boundaries set and the absence of rationale. A myth is not to be understood, a myth is passed on, like a game of Chinese whispers, it takes its course and ages with time, suiting the demography and tale, it warps and distorts

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