Fouet

2023

A fictional video recounting the dreams and fantasies of a depressed whip who feels inutle because he's been forgotten for too long. This cinematically-inspired fiction takes references from the great classics of cinema and draws on themes such as film noir and gore/horror films
The film consists of an intro and conclusion in black and white, and the central block in color. The black-and-white sections correspond to the whip's real, gloomy and sad life, contrasting with the central color section, which depicts his dreams. When the film is in black and white, the pace is slower and more contemplative, in contrast to the color section, which is very rhythmic, using accumulation and repetitive montage effects to illustrate the whip's mad, fanatical dream. Basic but effective codes for understanding the narrative.

Once upon a time, there was a whip who was tired of beating nothing all day. Tired of beating nothing but eggs. Tired of being forgotten and put back in the cupboard with the crumbs from the bottom of drawers. It's a whisk that aspires to bigger beats. It wants to beat life into high gear and out of beaten eggs. He has big beating dreams, but they're only dreams he fantasizes about when he's at the end of his rope between the mandolin and the cheese grater.
His fantasies are powerful and far-reaching. He doesn't give a damn about morality; his only wish is to experiment with total and massive destruction on all the foods that have taunted him for so long, because inaccessible to him; a whip complexed by his physical impotence. He dreams of himself as a great, all-powerful utensil God, with a huge inferiority complex, who beats everything in his path, to whom no food can resist. But it's only a dream, as reality catches up with him and his imaginary plan falls through.