Closure of Catharsis

Closure of Catharsis is a BritishIrish Experimental film directed by Rouzbeh Rashidi that tells the visual story of a man who sits on a park bench talking to the camera, trying to weave together a thought that wont cohere while commenting on passersby, his guests... Mysterious images intervene, overturning the serenity of the parkbench monologue.

The improvisation took place over two hours without any break, and Rashidi did not attempt to direct or shape James performance in the traditional sense in fact, Rashidi was not even present for much of the improvisation, instead, he would deliberately wander off fororminutes at a time, allowing James to simply respond to his immediate situation in the park a couple of unleashed dangerous dogs, a squirrel darting across a branch, a jogger cruising by, some school girls giggling at the camera, all became grist to the improvisational mill. Rashidis only interjections were as an occasional mysterious offcamera other, stimulating James by giving him random objects found in the park, such as an old pendant or an empty bottle of vodka. Aside from this however, Rashidi left James to his own devices in front of camera, the only boundary being the frame within which James had been placed, and sometimes not even the frame, as when he stepped outside of it.

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