BOXING THE COMPASS (2008)
HD/16mm, USA, 45 mins, Color, Sound.

Boxing the Compass addresses concepts of spatial perception through the experimental narrative form, exploring the impact of mediated spaces on the navigation of everyday environments. The film's fractured story focuses on one nameless woman's struggle to navigate the space of her everyday environment and depicts her attempt to reconcile an understanding of the space around her. As this woman moves through the space of her own world and through the space of the cinematic medium, her mobility becomes complicated, and she builds a strange televisual device in order to "map" the space around her. Taking a cue from the long tradition of avant-garde cinema engaging and re-appropriating genres of science fiction--from Godard's Alphaville to Chris Marker's La Jetee to Craig Baldwin's Specters of the Spectrum--Boxing the Compass utilizes the space of cinema as a fantastical device to map the territory in-between mediated and physical environments. Ultimately, Boxing the Compass approaches the mediums of film and video as latter-day tools of cartography, using the spatial possibilities of the moving image in order to explore what hidden spaces remain to be seen in our physical world.