Written by Duration 29′ –
Telenesia emerges from an obsession with the slow collapse of images—how film grain unravels, how pixels dissolve into uncertainty, how meaning flickers at the edge of disappearance. Even as the picture breaks apart, the human eye insists on finding patterns, projecting narratives onto noise. The film dwells in this fragile zone where perception clings to the remnants of form.
Composed of twenty-two one-minute passages, the work drifts through the archetypal sequence of the Tarot’s Major Arcana. Each fragment becomes a threshold, a moment where an image—already deteriorating—meets the symbolic gravity of the cards. From the wandering openness of The Fool to the expansive closure of The Universe, the film traces a ritualised journey through the structures that underlie intuition.
The material was gathered over years in a small home studio, shot off-speed on 16mm Bolex and Super 8—machines whose mechanical irregularities imprint their own rhythms onto the world. Transferred into digital space for editing, the footage was handled with care so that dissolves and overlays retained the character of analog processes. What emerges is a restless, flickering surface where motion and texture obscure and reveal each other in equal measure.
Sound and image evolved together in a continual exchange between editor and musician. Voices appear and vanish like ghosts caught between channels; static, interference, and fragments of lost signals drift through the compositions. The soundtrack extends the film’s archaeology of media, sifting through the detritus of communication to find traces of presence.
“Telenesia” names a place that does not quite exist—a faraway zone whose echo of “television” hints at broadcast, breakdown, and distance. Imagined as a drifting island of discarded transmissions somewhere in the Pacific, it is a landscape made from failed messages: a mass of communication that has slipped beyond retrieval but still hums with residual intention.
Created alongside a large-scale gallery installation, the film was conceived as an archival journey through an unstable database. It invites the viewer to wander through its fragments, to read the debris of technology as symbolic matter, and to inhabit a world where meaning survives by continually transforming itself.