Cycladic Thermometer

A dreamlike collage of text and image that drifts across centuries, asking you to piece together its quiet riddles.

Directed by

Kate Dollenmayer

Overview

A found text from a darkroom thermometer package provides instructions for healing the wounds of this world, with help from a foosball player posing as a Cycladic figure. Spanning time and space from Bronze-Age Ano Syros to present-day Los Angeles, “…everything that we see in life is something of a shadow cast by that which we do not see. Plato was right.” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -KD

How it feels

Eerie, whimsical, earnest and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Memory, art, identity, healing

Content

No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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