Better Lovers
Chapter 3:
Pacifies a Lier
The fertile ground of your imagination is all that is needed. Four figures of authority: The Lecturer, The Mother, The Scientist, and The Artist guide you towards a material understanding of your beliefs. Sometimes this can be painful, but it is easier in your sleep.
Chapter Three: Pacifies a Lier is part of an ongoing series of experimental shorts conceived of as a guide for learning pottery-making through hypnotism. The film probes through dark psychological vignettes like Russian nesting dolls. A lecturer is interrupted by a commercial for a prosthetic glove. A scientist conjures a carbon snake. An artist directs protégés in syncopated, rhythmic movements. As ideas appear and reappear in temporal spiraling, perceptual experience and the process of learning become indistinguishable. Material and psychical space collapse through a tattoo parlor, a parapsychology laboratory, and a skylight. You can pick up your work next week.
HD video
12:42
2022
Chapter Three: Pacifies a Lier is part of an ongoing series of experimental shorts conceived of as a guide for learning pottery-making through hypnotism. The film probes through dark psychological vignettes like Russian nesting dolls. A lecturer is interrupted by a commercial for a prosthetic glove. A scientist conjures a carbon snake. An artist directs protégés in syncopated, rhythmic movements. As ideas appear and reappear in temporal spiraling, perceptual experience and the process of learning become indistinguishable. Material and psychical space collapse through a tattoo parlor, a parapsychology laboratory, and a skylight. You can pick up your work next week.
HD video
12:42
2022
A film by
Better Lovers + Hsin-Yu Chen
With Chloe Newton, Katie Vickers, Luqman Kolade, Leo Sides, Rebecca Askin, Amy Shindo, Anthony Romero, JoAnne Sutkin, Kenni Field and Jacob Raeder
Director of Photography// Kyungchan Min
Choreographer// Layla Marcelle
Production Design// Better Lovers
Editor// Hsin-Yu Chen
Assistant Camera// Katie Harkins
Gaffer// Ja’rel Ivory
Grip// Hai Nguyen
Sound Mixer// Timothy Day
Colorist// Kyungchan Min
Visual Effects// Matthew Shackelford
Original Song// Kat Wright
Mr. Rogers Sound Mix// Alexander Candela
Better Lovers + Hsin-Yu Chen
With Chloe Newton, Katie Vickers, Luqman Kolade, Leo Sides, Rebecca Askin, Amy Shindo, Anthony Romero, JoAnne Sutkin, Kenni Field and Jacob Raeder
Director of Photography// Kyungchan Min
Choreographer// Layla Marcelle
Production Design// Better Lovers
Editor// Hsin-Yu Chen
Assistant Camera// Katie Harkins
Gaffer// Ja’rel Ivory
Grip// Hai Nguyen
Sound Mixer// Timothy Day
Colorist// Kyungchan Min
Visual Effects// Matthew Shackelford
Original Song// Kat Wright
Mr. Rogers Sound Mix// Alexander Candela
