A dazzling disorder

What do a man hugging a fish, a woman with a small bird in her mouth, a crowd viewing the Mona Lisa and a firework’s dying sparks have in common?

Absolutely nothing. That’s the genius of this riveting piece of audio-visual whimsy created by Chanez, who describes it as a “a mind-bending, free-form travelogue that journeys from Asia to Europe and America. A non-linear short film where the viewer travels between the real and the mythical, the individual and the collective”.

Quite so. Avant-garde pop composer Thomas Azier wanted the piece to capture ‘the soul of the world’ and in its use of footage and images collected throughout 2019, this astonishingly engaging, narrative-free story does somehow seem to hang together as it conjures the turmoil of human life and the tenuous connections between living things.