The DISEMBODIED Adventures of Alice
2023
Aspect 2.35:1, 1 hour 28 min 18 sec
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Introduction
This hallucinatory trip, an adult fairytale, travels through a long, dark night, conjuring otherworldly scenes of kink, gender-swapping, mental illness, loss and loneliness. Reimagining Lewis Carroll’s iconic Alice, the film’s protagonist journeys through a warren of bewildering scenarios where she encounters characters who are at once beguiling and alienating –gliding, writhing, gorging, dancing and uttering passages from Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. Their world promises as much danger as sensual delight.
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Essay
There is comfort in the idea of sailing off the end of the world, falling clean off the edge of a cliff, where choice is removed and there is no decision left to be made. It is done. Such is the experience of Virgil and Dante after entering the gates of Hell in The Divine Comedy with…
Critical Review
Adapting a story from one already familiar to most and twisting it into a creation completely unique is a mark of a true creator. The Disembodied Adventures of Alice by Cléa Elisa van der Grijn is an experience unlike the original fairytale. The dissociative nature of the protagonist coupled with the ambiguous and evasive motives of the…
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