The Folly
16mm film / Projection / Lecture/ Silent / 5 mins./ 2019.

In Ivan Vladislavic’s 1993 surrealist novel The Folly, two neighbors clear a plot of land into a tabula rasa to give way to a magnificent new structure. They frenzy over a house constructed solely from imagination, color, light, air, and mist. My film is inspired by the special effects of early 20th century cinema, and in it I become a frenzied builder myself. Cast as the third character, I look at the parallels between the novel’s themes and my studio: the unknown, building from fragments, illusion, and progress.

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