2025
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In the Round brings together the many voices of protest, following nameless figures as they wander through a virtual space. Staged like a theatre in the round, with performers warming up at its centre, the film surrounds us with images that feel almost painted. Sourcing archival recordings embedded in the collective memory of demonstrations and processions, it extracts sonic fragments from their original historical contexts and maps them onto a digitally constructed environment. What unfolds is an acoustic field where different political movements converge and resonate, their voices lingering together in a shared space. Figures appear and vanish, running across the frame, spectral and persistent. Chants drift through cracked loudspeakers, sirens stretch into strange melodic lines. Simulation does not smooth over reality, it splits it open. The world does not wait, and everything tilts forward, messy, breathless, mid-sentence, always in motion.
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HD, CGI, color, sound, 03’30”
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