Fantaisie: A modern Ophelia's struggle with audiovisual overwhelm

theguardian.com

Isabel Pagliai's film "Fantaisie" explores a young woman named Louise overwhelmed by audiovisual stimuli. The film blends documentary and fiction, showing Louise's fragmented life illuminated by screens, and her encounter with a narrator in a pond, evoking a modern Ophelia. Pagliai uses eclectic visuals, including distorted AI-generated images, to depict Louise's emotional state and the intrusion of technology into imagination and memory.


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