BuildFilm5: Damnatio Memoriae (Icositetragram Spell): Digital Video / Stereo Sound / 14min

BuildFilm is an ongoing project that aims to combine elements of both “structural cinema” and “poetic cinema” into a single genre/mode in the hopes of birthing a form of contemporary filmmaking that can properly deal with the media landscape we now face daily. Results may vary.

"Damnatio memoriae" is a Latin phrase meaning "condemnation of memory." It refers to the practice of deliberately erasing or destroying records, monuments, and other traces of a person's existence as a form of posthumous punishment. --- An icositetragram is a 24-sided star.

This film publicly premiered on March 14th, 2025 at 2:59 a.m. which was the peak moment of the lunar eclipse of the Blood Worm Moon.

"Making a movie is casting a spell." -Kenneth Anger