A man in California sees splices. Images in dreams. A bridge. A tower. A black lake. They are not dreams. They are signals. He has a feeling and follows it.
Midway through his Massachusetts journey, Peter Proud visits Springfield (established in 1636) and wanders into the shadow of a statue. The statue is "The Puritan" by Augustus St Gaudens. The gaze of the deacon looms. Peter squints before the splice and sun. We forget that the U.S. was colonized as a way to practice one of the history's most conservative and supernatural religions. Our relationship with our roots has grown so distant, we fear acknowledging its trauma will only bring it back. This fear is the reason The Witch struck with so many. We have othered what we came from. Peter Proud revisits these origins as signals by considering trauma, which is another way to say "past lives".
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Midway through his Massachusetts journey, Peter Proud visits Springfield (established in 1636) and wanders into the shadow of a statue. The statue is "The Puritan" by Augustus St Gaudens. The gaze of the deacon looms. Peter squints before the splice and sun. We forget that the U.S. was colonized as a way to practice one of the history's most conservative and supernatural religions. Our relationship with our roots has grown so distant, we fear acknowledging its trauma will only bring it back. This fear is the reason The Witch struck with so many. We have othered what we came from. Peter Proud revisits these origins as signals by considering trauma, which is another way to say "past lives".
(full review at Letterboxd)
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