Organism

Film as a tool of cognition, an experimental film/epistemology merges with the aesthetics of accelerated image. Through this acceleration, knowledge itself speaks to us: under the effects of time-lapse, the everyday flow of time evaporates, revealing its unconscious structure. More precisely, its unconscious conditions of possibility, the structures that persist - unlike ordinary consciousness, which flickers so quickly that it is blind to the structures that give birth to it, causing our conscious self to think, like a child covering its face and thinking its mother cannot see it, that it gives birth to the world and to itself. Hilary Harris, like Marie Menken in Go! Go! Go!, dissolves the individual in their organism (whether biological or social) and, in the best traditions of structuralism, shows that the individual subject is nothing more than a secondary product of structure: Did you see a "Man" in any of the shots? I only saw structures, elevated to the place of that "Man" - they become the subject, they live, they grow; they decide where the human mass, frenetically accelerated by the film macro lens, will go: people are just blood in a giant organism, which they themselves unknowingly create daily, and which, as we must realize, human individuals create without needing them in their individuality. (22.02.2017)