BuildFilm4: Skimming : Digital Video / Stereo Sound / 8min
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.
Skimming deals directly with the corporeal world coming into violent contact with the digital. Its structure and shapes are drawn from that of the handheld screen of the cellphone. This is simultaneously a hopeful and a depressed film about being a very small, intensely controlled organism in a hostile world. Also, one must ask oneself today in 2024, “Is the constant stream of light, images, sounds, and videos coming from my palm actually cinema or something else entirely?”