moulded
2024 · 10m · USA
Directed by Ahmad Bakrin
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tense
A young artist drifts out of reality after a breakup while shaping a sculpture in her studio. Dissociation seeps in through the cracks of a self she's been performing for too long.
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Dissociation framed as a sculpting practice is the rare metaphor that earns its keep. Restraint is a hard sell from me, but Bakrin's uncanny register is the right kind of quiet.
The physical act of sculpting as rhythm for psychological unraveling — Bakrin's Saint Maud interiority crossed with First Reformed artmaking melancholy is an ambitious self-comparison and partly earned. Promising rather than complete.
The physical act of sculpting as the rhythm and metaphor for psychological unraveling — that body-as-clay structural choice is doing real work for a dissociation drama. Lives on whether the sculpting actually drives the cut.
Reviews
A subdued thriller with a unique consideration of dissociation as a result of modern social realities and fabricated persona.