Suzon (2024)

Děj

a disruption of the bully's gaze & voice . Viral videos of drive-thru workers—recorded by surveillant, managerial consumers—are reimagined as portraits embodying the tension between the mundane and the theatrical. Named after the real-life woman in Manet's painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, this found-footage montage references visual elements and ideas in the painting. Aureoles of light venerate workers, renouncing the distinction between high and low art in portraiture; incongruous settings are interwoven to reflect on the shifting sensibilities from analogue film to digital media, and to frame questions about the roles of filmmaker and audience; undulating textures evoke the generative potential of the iconic drive-thru to create new meanings.