Directed by Michelle Elrick

Logline: The real encloses the remembered. A poetic look at the distorting/defining effect of memory.

Synopsis: SQUARE is the story of a room that undergoes a series of dream-like transformations during a woman's mundane morning routine. Throughout the film, objects are transformed, exaggerated, dismantled and re-imagined, addressing the transient nature of place and distorted perspective of memory.

Distribution Contact: WFG

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RUNTIME: 4 Minutes
GENRE: Narrative, Fiction
LANGUAGE: English
LOCATION: Manitoba
KEYWORDS: Poem, Poetry, Art, Quilt,
Apartment, Sigor Ros, Memory, Iceland, Dreamlike, Conceptual, Female Filmmaker

Director's Statement: Based on the poem "Sigur Rós doesn't sound the same on these speakers" by Michelle Elrick. This film grew out of Elrick's 2013 international performance project, “Notes from the Fort: a poetic of inhabited space," which launched in Reykjavik, Iceland before traveling to Northern Scotland, Austria and Western Canada. This film exposes the complicity of memory in generating a person's perception of place using sometimes sombre, sometimes playful distortions of environment to demonstrate the effect memory has on the real. Elrick has written extensively on this topic at notesfromthefort.com and in her upcoming book then/again.