From these, Decker builds a flowing, free-associative dance sequence that seems propelled forward not by any apparent narrative but by sheer audiovisual energy. The standout, Josephine Decker’s First Day Out, is built around a series of audio interviews with former prisoners, in which they describe their first impressions of the world they found upon release. In bringing the inevitably unstructured and illogical patterns of unconscious thought to the screen, the film’s best shorts apply a structure and logic that is all their own. It’s a truth universally acknowledged that nothing is more boring than hearing about other people’s dreams, an issue that collective:unconscious neatly sidesteps by encouraging its film-makers to obey the spirit but not the letter of their source material. Collective: unconscious - still from “Black Soil, Green Grass” by Daniel Patrick Carbone.
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