Are you tired of forever?

A surreal montage of selfdom in a lensed world.

Direction, Animation, Voiceover and Edit by Caitlin Craggs
Voice and Translation by Babsi
Sound Mixed by Pin-Hua Chen
"Ojos Tristes" by Guty Cardenas

→ → Future Screenings → →
Lausanne Underground Film Fest | Lausanne, Switzerland

← ← Past Screenings + Awards ← ←
Slamdance | Park City, UT | Grand Jury Prize Best Experimental Short
Images | Toronto, Canada | York University Award for Best Student Work on Screen
Rotterdam International Film Festival | Rotterdam, Netherlands
Cosmic Rays Film Festival | Chapel Hill, NC
Experiments in Cinema | Albuquerque, NM
Yale Student Film Festival | New Haven, CT
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival | Milwaukee, WI
Malt Adult | Cleveland, OH
CalArts Showcase | Los Angeles, CA
BAM Cinemafest | Brooklyn, NY
Slamdance on the Road | New York, NY
Lago Film Fest | Revine Lago, ITALY
Channels | Chicago, IL
Les Femmes Underground International Film Fest | Phoenix, AZ

This film was made as a reaction against the sensorial myopia of the culture I live in. I got excited about using this limited sensory palette (image + sound) to evoke other sensory responses (taste, touch, smell, or combinations thereof). A lot of film already does this very successfully—advertising, porn, horror, most blockbusters really— all stimulate a physiological response in the body. But I find that there is an element of the intellectual mind that tends to shut off when these physiological triggers happen. The amazing thing about expanded sensoriums is that knowledge or wisdom can be embedded and communicated through all the senses, not simply aurally and visually. So in my attempt to speak to my viewer’s bodies, I did not want to shut that off that curious, intellectual part of their brains. I needed my viewers to actively be making sense of the film.

The other thing floating around the production was that my relationship had gone long-distance. I was doing a lot of late-night time-traveling facetimes, and there was all this arresting cinematic stuff that came out of it—fun glitchy things, but also weird compositions, odd manipulated bodies, and many moments of small theater: puppetry, gags, slap-stick, rope-a-dopes, and a whole world of digital drag.

To be free we must know our bodies and what they are capable of— imaginative, terrifying, affectionate, vulnerable, cruel and beautiful things.

press site >> caitlincraggs.com/AYTOF-PRESS

Cast: Caitlin Craggs