SOLIPSIST
2012 · 10m · USA
Directed by Andrew Thomas Huang
Genres: experimental, fantasy
Tones: contemplative, mythic, surreal
Bodies merge and transform, flora and fauna bleed across human figures, and the boundaries between selves dissolve in a wordless experimental dance film that won the Slamdance Special Jury Prize for Experimental Short.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Bodies dissolve into each other, flowers grow through skin, the concept of a separate self is treated like a bug not a feature. Huang made something that's basically the argument against individual identity as a ten-minute feast for the eyes. Slamdance jury had no choice.
Andrew Thomas Huang literalizes solipsism as body-horror and ecstatic beauty in the same gesture — Slamdance Special Jury Prize, Björk collaborator-in-training. The philosophical idea made flesh, then unmade.
Andrew Thomas Huang literalizing solipsism as body horror and ecstatic beauty in the same frame — Slamdance Special Jury Prize, no narrative, just the philosophical idea made flesh and unmade again. 1.8 million views agree the spell works.
Festivals
- Slamdance Film Festival 2012, Special Jury Prize