In collaboration with the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Melika Bass' Creature Companion (2018) is showing exclusively on Mubi from July 2 - August 1, 2018 as part of the series Competing at Oberhausen.Humans inhabit containers. Most intimately, our bodies are containers. Our daily jobs, and our mornings and nights are mostly spent inside boxes. When we leave those spots, we travel inside and into different containers—other houses, rooms, offices, cars, trains. My new experimental fiction film, Creature Companion, is a container too—a cinematic snow globe, bubbling on simmer. Like a lot of movies, it shows the exteriors of bodies and rooms and objects. It is also asking: what do these images and surfaces contain inside, what remains unknown, concealed underneath? How can cinema get at the interior of humans, when the whole apparatus is about capturing surfaces?The two women featured in Creature Companion navigate their bodies, domestic spaces, and the world outside through maintenance,...
- 7/2/2018
- MUBI
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