MilleFeuille confections pre-existing, found footage into metaphors about banal violence and decadent melancholia. Clips of random daily life are recast as scenes imbued with mythic allusions; and through the use of juxtaposition, familiar locations are transformed into paradoxical spaces. The 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 59 min . includes 'Drive with Persephone' 10 min & 'Cupid's Fever' 16 min
PAPA IS IN THE GARDEN 15 min
THE KITTENS' TEA PARTY 10.5 min
SUZON 10 min
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2024 Festival of (In)appropriation #13 Los Angeles Film Forum curators Jaimie Baron, Jennifer Proctor, Adam Sekuler // 2024 Moviate program 'Best of Film Festival 2023' USA. curator Josh Drake // 2024 Short Circuit United Kingdom // 2023 Festival of (In)appropriation #13 Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive 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 #10 USA Los Angeles Film Forum & NorthWest Film Forum curators Jaimie Baron, Lauren S. Berliner, Greg Cohen