The film presents a poetic, experimental meditation on desire, identity, and the spectacle of contemporary life. It opens with a tracking poolside shot, as a French-accented male voice reinterprets “SMS” as “Save My Soul,” framing communication as a response to loneliness. Multiple female voices explore desire, power, and self-presentation, emphasizing how makeup and masks allow individuals to conceal and perform identity, especially in nightlife and theatrical contexts. Visuals oscillate between club scenes, carnival pageantry, and forest dancing, often highlighting surreal interrogated existence, morality, and the self, while fast-paced editing mirrors collective energy in dance and social spectacle. Themes of capital, commodified desire, and collective dreaming recur, with imagery of businessrooms, rotating global coins, and Renaissance style floating images underscoring the societal construction of identity. The film ultimately frames reality as exaggerated costumes that blur the line between reality and performance. 

A multivocal tenor. Its creation is based on edited images that are collaged together to form a particular narrative surrounding the question of identity. The multiple origins of the footage are apparent not only through the quality of the image, but also in the voices narrating it. The languages spoken change between French, German, and English. The visual oscillation and narrative surplus in image and spoken words set the right tone for my program, as it questions the formulation of the self within a sphere of excessive perspectives.

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