Originally developed as a provocative triptych of film poems at the Ji.Hlava Film Academy in late 2021, P.J. Marcellino's second experimental short (following Riga, 2018) is an exercise in political intervention, critiquing and questioning...See moreOriginally developed as a provocative triptych of film poems at the Ji.Hlava Film Academy in late 2021, P.J. Marcellino's second experimental short (following Riga, 2018) is an exercise in political intervention, critiquing and questioning the cacophony surrounding truth, news cycles, populism, echo chambers, "alternative facts" and fake news in the year of Our Lord of 2021. In what he calls "a political punk poem", Marcellino's hybrid documentary boldly explores - through metaphor, layering, immersive sound, and provocative and reactionary soundbites - the performativity and surprising controversy of truth in our days - or, as Philip Knightley once called it, the first casualty.
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