COMPENDIUM OF PERPLEXITIES

COMPENDIUM OF PERPLEXITIES, 2011 (7 minutes) Composed of many threads. No fixed narrative, nor explanations. At the core: a group of individuals in search of something, sometimes tormented and sometimes detached. One individual continuously jumps off a balcony, but somehow at the last moment she's restrained from falling. In another group, there’s the throwing of the dice as a game of fortune to determine a future. In Shanghai, a man digs a ditch to eternity. Someone walks down the street and never looks back. Two men pass back and forth an unconscious woman – seemingly ritualistic and arbitrary. These dream-like sequences unfold in grainy black and white, suggesting animation. A hypnotic soundtrack generates alpha waves in the viewer.