| EPISODE 11: MELENCHOLIA || A.2: EROS, ALWAYS ALREADY |

Film Essay

Melancholia contemplates the complex dialectic between existential struggle and the pursuit of aesthetic solace. It examines the capacity to confront the profound challenges and dissonances of life, acknowledging the weight of sorrow, disillusionment, and uncertainty, while simultaneously finding moments of transcendence through the meditative act of art-making. In this tension, the work navigates the paradoxical space where melancholy—often understood as a condition of loss or absence—becomes the catalyst for artistic reflection, offering a means of grappling with the ineffable. Through its careful studies and contemplative compositions, Melancholia invites an engagement with the full spectrum of human experience, suggesting that within the contemplation of pain and impermanence, there exists the potential for beauty, insight, and quiet joy.

Act

Act 3: Eros, Always Already | Agile Cinema® operates as a reflexive apparatus within contemporary media praxis, staging intimate engagements with its interlocutors—artists, curators, actors, scholars, executive creatives, chefs, musicians, collectors, poets, and filmmakers—not merely as subjects, but as co-producers in a durational and participatory aesthetic encounter. This mode of ‘agile’ production reconfigures traditional hierarchies of authorship and spectatorship, producing what might be termed participatory media, in which the lines between creation and reception are deliberately blurred. Situated within a dramaturgy of metalepsis and fourth-wall rupture, the project embraces a performative destabilization of narrative boundaries. Drawing on the traditions of collage, montage, and theatrical assemblage, Eros, Always Already stages a hybridized cultural space where public and private, fiction and documentary, converge. It is a gesture of aesthetic and affective entanglement—a dramaturgical act of love—that treats the creative process not merely as content generation, but as relational poiesis in a shared field of becoming.

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Double-Sided Collages | 4 x 4″ | 8 x 8" | 20 x 20" | 36 x 36"

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Bricolage

Collage, Montage, Assemblage

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