The Belly Conspiracy | Short Film of the Day

Spotlight June 15, 2024

The Belly Conspiracy

By Dorothy Shrodinger with 7

experimental · Short Films · english

Trigger warning: This film includes strobe lighting effects that could be triggering for some viewers with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is recommended.

The film presents a singular union of ideas about the duality of the self with unrestricted, unbound appetites. The thematic exploration further asserts that the two, in fact, are intrinsic to each other. When a dark, denied self finally rises from the deep pits where it might have lain dormant and forgotten for a long, long time, it unleashes upon the world an inexorable, unstoppable hunger, underlines the film. If one self stays in the light, the other continues to grow and expand in the dark until it reaches a point of no return.

The film talks of a monstrous being, an ever-consuming, ever-hungering woman, and the endless darkness that she encompasses. She could very well be the monster within us all, the monster of our denied selves. She could be every human with their greed and lust and forever increasing desire to consume more and more.

The narrative ties its artistic and creative intentions with artificial intelligence to realize its vision, and in the process, presents to the viewer a phantasmagoria of images about a scheme of the inner self to let itself be known through a conspiracy with appetite. This destructive hunger that reigns free remains meticulously imagined and executed throughout.
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