emotion 93
2018 · 10m · USA
Directed by Oz Davidson
Genres: drama, essay film, experimental
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
In 1993, a teenage boy and girl swap bodies and never quite return — they carry the residue for the rest of their lives. Built from Garth Brooks drawings, Simpsons toys, and Nintendo cartridges like it's an archaeology project.
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Body-swap as lifelong residue, told through Nintendo cartridges and Garth Brooks scribbles — that's not a logline, that's a haunting. Davidson treats nostalgia like forensic evidence and I respect that completely.
Oz Davidson uses Garth Brooks drawings, Simpsons toys, and Nintendo cartridges as memory substrate for a body-swap that never reversed — World's Fair in the lineage, La Jetée in the construction. Singular.
1993 cultural debris — Garth Brooks drawings, Simpsons toys, Nintendo cartridges — used as memory substrate for a body-swap that never fully reverses. Oz Davidson treating the era's objects as haunted artifacts is a beautiful formal idea.
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Davidson is on to something unique here, pondering the mysteries of life with precise insight into how we define ourselves, and what we're aiming to uncover.