Intimacies and Agglomerations
Wayne Koestenbaum
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2m 32s
Directed by Wayne Koestenbaum • Documentary • 2024 • 3 minutes
This film is a stop-motion animation work that incorporates various elements in Koestenbaum’s painting studio. Tiny dramas and collisions—adventures, aspirations, encounters, rapprochements, downfalls, redemptions—blossom into existence via the tiny cut-out parts and painted scrims that Koestenbaum deploys in his miniature cabinet-theater, vaguely reminiscent of the dream-world of Jacques Demy (as chronicled in Agnès Varda’s Jacquot de Nantes). Koestenbaum’s ambition in these stop-motion animated chronicles is to create abstract romantic episodes with non-human, invented scraps and tidbits, micro-players frolicking in a world where love (intimacies) and familial/societal adhesion (agglomerations) can speed ahead with the lightness of a found song. The soundtrack is a musical episode that Koestenbaum improvised on the piano.
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