POET TOWER FIGURINE - KALTBLUT Magazine

"This is the question at the centre of POET TOWER FIGURINE, a surreal short film made in collaboration with Danish artist Josephine 'Child' Carl of CHILD + THE BANNED. It was inspired by a dream she had as a child: that she was a tiny porcelain figurine in a world without logic or direction, moved only by the hand of a much larger girl. And if that hand ever stopped playing, she'd simply stop existing."

"That image didn't just inspire the film; it guided it. A quiet, unsettling metaphor for what it means to create without fully knowing who or what is steering. As a woman and an artist, influence from the outside is always there, for better or worse. It became the emotional undercurrent of the piece, shaping its tone and movement like a memory you can't quite place but still carry."

"Shot on Super8 at Museum Insel Hombroich - an uncanny art and architecture space outside Cologne, Germany - the film follows a figure caught somewhere between autonomy and surrender. Josephine moves through the landscape in costumes by two young female designers, shifting between being the author and being authored, watched and watching back, in control and under the spell of something undefined."

POET TOWER FIGURINE is a surreal short film directed by Emily Macrander in collaboration with Danish artist Josephine 'Child' Carl of CHILD + THE BANNED. The film is inspired by a childhood dream in which the protagonist is a tiny porcelain figurine moved solely by a larger girl's hand, which shapes the film's central metaphor about creative control and external influence. Shot on Super8 at Museum Insel Hombroich outside Cologne, the film follows a figure navigating autonomy and surrender while wearing costumes by two young female designers. The piece meditates on authorship, memory, impulse, softness, and surrealism, with music by Isabel Gracefield and CHILD + THE BANNED.

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