MilleFeuille confections pre-existing, found footage into metaphors about banal violence and decadent melancholia. Clips of random daily life are recast as dramatic events imbued with cinematic qualities and mythic allusions. When the hard cuts and juxtapositions reveal a landscape of oppressive control, mundane normal soon gives way to the surreal. MilleFeuille’s intention is not to subsume the original footage and its first context into a singular narrative or message, but rather to inhabit the slippery terrain of found-footage multivalence.
MilleFeuille (aka MiruFiyu) is named after a famous 'thousand leaves' pastry whose origin is unknown because like windblown leaves drifting over lands and through time, the 'thousand leaves' pastry is an eternal remix.
I WENT TO A PARTY ALONE 73 min.
PAPA IS IN THE GARDEN 15 min.
THE KITTENS' TEA PARTY 10.5 min.
2023 Festival of (In)Appropriation USA curators Jaimie Baron, Jennifer Proctor, Adam Sekuler // 2023 Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground Argentina curator Marcelo Paez // 2023 Intermediaciones Colombia curators Adriana Rojas Espitia, Santiago Gómez // 2023 Festival ECRÃ Brazil // 2023 Moviate Underground Film Festival USA curator Caleb Smith // 2023 La Inesperada España curators Miquel Martí Freixas, Nuria Giménez Lorang // 2023 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival Canada // 2023 Xinema Canada curators Celina de Leon, Sidney Gordon // 2023 Pebbles Underground Festival Canada // 2022 Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground Argentina // 2022 ULTRAcinema México // 2022 Family Film Project Portugal // 2022 Mientras Tanto Cine Uruguay curators Michael Ramos-Araizaga, Javier Guerra, Silvana Camors // 2021 ULTRAcinema México curator Antonio Arango (Papa Is in the Garden) // 2021 ULTRAcinema México curator Antonio Arango (Cupid's Fever) // 2020 Simon Fraser University Canada Professor Laura Marks // 2020 ULTRAcinema México curators Efrain Bedoya, Libertad Gills // 2019 Family Film Project Portugal // 2018 Festival of (In)Appropriation USA curators Jaimie Baron, Lauren S. Berliner, Greg Cohen