The Grand Bizarre

Jodie Mack

IndieLisboa 2019 • Silvestre

Estados Unidos, Experimental, 2018, 60′

Experimental filmmaker Jodie Mack’s first feature is an animistic and pop-shaped postcard of a lost society, where everything merges and relates. Recurring motifs on fabrics and (flying) carpets transport us to globalization’s grand bazaar.

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