Distortion
A short film shot as part of my dissertation on The Corporeal Body as Lived and Being: Its Sensibilities Visualised through the Poetry Film. This experimental short film engages with a haptic reconfiguration of the body as a lived, material entity, disrupting linear conceptions of corporeality and temporality. Through fragmentation and sensorial displacement, it examines the body’s estrangement as a site of radical disembodiment.
The film functions as an open discursive space in which dislocated bodies may revive lost sensations and affective states. It highlights the perception of one’s own corporeal presence and movement as a mode of processing emotional distress and reclaiming embodied subjectivity.
The Delicacy of Nature
A short film created as part of my dissertation on The Corporeal Body as Lived and Being: Its Sensibilities Visualised through the Poetry Film. My second short experimental film explores the tenderness and sentiment of feminine sensibilities shared in a close female friendship free from societal intolerance towards women and displays of affection. Echoing the sensations we receive from both friendship and nature. Highlighting the haptic female gaze the short creates a safe space for pure feminine joy and freedom of expressing sexuality and exploration without exploitation of sensibilities.
The film relies on the motif of perceptual embodiment – how we experience the world through our bodies in the immediacy of the present. It emphasises lived experience over abstract notions of the self, grounding identity in the visceral, felt reality of being.
Chloe McCrae 