The Binding, een film van Jason Hendrik Hansma

What happens when familiar certainties disappear and the future becomes uncertain? In The Binding, artist Jason Hendrik Hansma explores how disruption can make room for new meanings. In the experimental film, Hansma creates a dreamy world in which flashes of light, distorted images and failed explosions alternate. For this, he used hundreds of videos found online of fireworks that do not explode or go off incorrectly. The images fall apart and take on new meanings again and again. The starting point is a statement by Hansma's three-year-old son: "I am not a human, I am a ghost." In the film, the child symbolises someone who carries the past into a future that has yet to take shape. The Binding premieres at Brutus Art Space. In collaboration with International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), a unique activation of the work will also take place.