Transmutation

I envisioned Transmutation as an "amniotic fantasia," - a dream gestating in the liminal space between becoming and being, conjured during transformation, where bodies and worlds exist in constant flux.

I created a film like a spell: a primal vision of transmutation influenced by the spectacle of early cinema. To tell a tale of creation from antiquated aesthetics, a fictional past-world before language - a body and myth dreamt from a primordial sense of creation, where identity is fluid and unstable with forces of time.

The narrative unfolds like a spiral: from the moment of a surreal birth: a blind god and a woman transform into a singular chimera. This transformation represents the monstrous androgyne, a figure that defies fixed ideas of a body, embodying both beauty and horror, attraction and repulsion. 

At its core, the film reflects my own relationship to the body - particularly dysphoria and estrangement I've experienced inhabiting a body that feels perpetually unstable, perpetually becoming. This film questions what it means to live in a body that resists closure, in a world of unravelling at the seams. Through this perspective, Transmutation explores the body as a vocation of posthuman potential: porous, mutable, stretched across temporalities which collapses original and future into a continuous act of becoming.

The tactile nature of 16mm film mirrors this process. Its materials embodies duality in its age: seducing through the sensuality of an image unsettled and in constant haze. 
Transmutation invites the viewer to confront and embrace the malleability of the body, to inhabit the hypnotic strangeness of the monstrous and otherworldly. This film is an experiment in tans-temporal vision, a poetical spectacle about the ritual of becoming.