Body
2021 · 10m · USA
Directed by Ryan Henry Knight
Genres: experimental
Tones: contemplative, sensual, surreal
A young woman moves through a series of performance-art tableaux exploring how she sees — and doesn't see — her own body. Less narrative than meditation, more flesh than plot.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A performance piece that lets the performer co-author the frame — rare. The whole genre needs more of this and less male-gaze cosplay.
A performance-art collaboration where Elijah Echo is co-author, not gaze object — Knight's restraint is the ethical and formal move, in the Schneemann/Hammer lineage. Genuinely a body film, not a body-shaped one.
A performance-art piece where the subject is co-author of her own gaze, not just object — that authorship credit (performance and concept by Elijah Echo) reshapes the whole ethics of the camera. Risk: thin without strong tableaux.