Unsettled

English subtitles available in .srt format on request.
View with English subtitles here: https://vimeo.com/281348973/829e69f55d

"Unsettled" by Anna Grigorian is a sarcastic and somber piece, looking at the power relations between an individual and an institution.

The video starts with mocking advertising pitches suggesting to find opinions “safe” for you and your environment. Why go into the trouble of thinking for yourself when you can comfortably adopt views that are “registered, tested, and approved.” The work gradually slides into a more meditative phase involving quotes from “Dialogues” by Gilles Deleuze on fixed social determinations.

"Unsettled" doesn’t seek to create a fruitless duality of “us” people vs. “them” institutions. The structures we live in are after all entirely human-made. The work is more of a contemplation on the subject of institutional power, including on how seductive, and at the same time corrosive and suppressive it can be.

Director, writer, producer: Anna Grigorian
Voiceover and cast: Julia Thomas, Vronsky Belizaire, Amber Jackson
Camera assistance: Kaja Levy, Adam Tadros, Ashod Nakashian
Final text: quote from “Dialogues” Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, 1977, Paris