Synopsis

Originally conceived as an immersive architectural installation featuring eight synchronized nine-minute films on a loop, Servitudes Film #7 investigates how we comprehend agency as well as the conventional understanding of the "able" or "disabled." This seventh installment introduces three characters: a woman, who embodies the media-created ideal of youth and female beauty and seems incapable of acting upon her desires; a child afflicted by a neurological disorder that affects the motor and sensory nerves, and a mediator between the two humans, namely the iconic One World Trade Center in New York, a phantom limb occupying the void left by the traumatic loss of the Twin Towers. The three protagonists of the piece appear as hybrids of machines and organisms, and their existence blurs the boundaries between fiction and experience. The work brims with a restrained yet intense kineticism, as its two mobility-limited protagonists internalize the skyscraper's haunted architecture.