2025 . variable duration . software and video files
Programming - Colin le Duc
Camera and makeup - Scarlet Winter
A piece of silent absurd theatre staged with and for an automated non-human system. The subject clown exists in a state of routine and confinement, completing simple data collection tasks and sometimes being rewarded with an orange to eat. Despite the hopelessness of his situation, he finds ways of making fun and expressing his discontent, experimenting with the props and staging symbolic protests for the cameras he knows are watching.
The work exists as a piece of software that reconfigures the order of scenes according to an authored structure. Each scene is then procedurally edited, alternating between cameras and sometimes switching register entirely - from filmed-theatre to intimate-cinematic, or vice versa. The resulting effect is one of liveness, where each viewer encounter is emergent within the parameters of a script; and one in which the subject is being organised, in and out of the diegesis, by a computer.
Exhibitions
Elevation Film Festival, Market Hall
3-4 October 2026
Coherent Philosophy, FENSTER project space @ KARST
27-29 September 2025