Goes Around

2020, Not-Rated, 25 Mins

This film is the second in an ongoing series exploring interconnected themes such as spectacle, human innovation, natural disasters, tragedy, and war. Inspired by The Way Things Go by Peter Fischli and David Weiss, I approach this work as a kind of digital Rube Goldberg mechanism - a chain reaction composed of seemingly unrelated yet intricately linked moments.

The film is built entirely from found footage and sound sourced from YouTube. As I assemble the piece, I oscillate between being an active editor and a passive observer, allowing the YouTube algorithm to partially dictate the direction of the film. This balance of intention and surrender mirrors the unpredictability of the systems I aim to examine.

I am particularly interested in how human technologies are developed with the intention to preserve life, streamline systems, or improve daily existence - yet these same tools often contribute to destruction, exploitation, and environmental collapse. The film reflects this contradiction, tracing the fragile line between progress and peril.

Through this nonlinear sequence, I construct a cinematic chain reaction that highlights the interconnectedness of human and environmental systems. Each video clip acts as both a continuation and a consequence of the one before it, revealing how deeply entangled we are in the structures we build - and how those structures can both sustain and endanger us.

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