Shot primarily in the grain of 8mm film, DAMAGE intertwines the vintage allure of analog with the occasional stark clarity of digital imagery, mirroring the erratic nature of its protagonist’s psyche.
Amid the strata of illusion and fleeting ecstasy, I find a muse. She is a paradox incarnate, eluding every archetype, channeling the mythos and mystique of Hollywood.
Neither savior nor scourge, she is an alluring cipher who captivates as much as she bruises.
her excavation: a confrontation with shadows both internal and inherited. DAMAGE unfurls not merely as a narrative, but as a corporeal ordeal, a fever dream of cinema where illusion fractures while the boundaries between truth and artifice bleed into one another, settling in the cracks.
What remains is not just a story, but a scar