My Expanded View
2019 · 8m · USA
Directed by Corey Hughes
Genres: essay film, experimental
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, surreal
A peaceful YouTube yoga tutorial featuring a collapsed body derails into a meta deconstruction of digital realms and cultural trends.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A yoga tutorial that quietly realizes it's a yoga tutorial and gets weirder about it. Internet-poisoned in the good way.
Corey Hughes turning a YouTube yoga tutorial into a meta-essay on digital embodiment is precisely the kind of small experimental move that justifies the format — a Harun Farocki gesture for the algorithm age.
At 8 minutes, a YouTube yoga tutorial that collapses into meta deconstruction of digital realms — Corey Hughes hijacking the algorithm's own format is a tight little formal raid and I trust him here.