conceptual film & set design
Expired |UCL The Bartlett School of Architecture 2023-2024
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final film production: Expired the film
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Expired explores queer, female spatial experience through the medium of an experimental film. Set in a store, the film reflects on how humans serve capitalism through our actions, labor, and desires. In the store, fruit is preserved, labeled, and wrapped, suspended in time to resist its own inherent will to decay, submitting to human will.
Born out of curiosity and resistance, Expired questions what happens when we challenge and subvert expectations - of actions, desires, values. Fruit here is still wrapped, labeled, and preserved—but in a state of rot. Fruit becomes a product of desire and transformation, a metaphor for female and queer bodies. Expired is a biotic fantasy where things seep into the rot, relish in the abject, and bleed out, only to be encased in their own liquids. The film captures this as an intentionally grotesque obsession with decay—a hazy vat of viscera, a metaphor of bio- and sociopolitical issues.