Ardent Verdant

Ardent Verdant

Film Festival Reports

TIFF 2017: WAVELENGTHS. WASTELAND N°1: ARDENT, VERDANT BY JODIE MACK

By José Sarmiento Hinojosa

Ardent, Verdant, (Burning green) is a proper title for Jodie Mack’s latest exploration in the structural games of textures, patterns and colorful images that carry an unsuspected depth. This playful way in which Mack orders her personal structure of objects can be misleadingly deceitful, although in the best of ways: there’s always something to reflect on this intense game of materials which is the filmmakers way of speaking of the optical arrest that the everyday object can bring to life, and the underlying reflection on the origins of the same object and what does it speaks for.

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