the fouled compass
Synopsis
Short film by Madison Bycroft that takes its name from Adrienne Rich's 1973 poem, Diving the Wreck. The film explores floating as a methodology of disorientation and a practice of pleasure that is not goal oriented and instead fractured, wandering, abstracted and planktonic.
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