[Surplus] is an essay film that reflects on how inherited visual and narrative codes shape our perception of contemporary images, particularly those depicting the ongoing live-transmitted massacres. Examining mainstream film material, the work interrogates how the language of spectacle shapes the ways we see, and how it organizes the narrative into a structure that leaves the audience trapped within a conflict-driven scenario. By moving the gaze towards the background, bodies without given names and gestures without apparent weight speak with the text to think of film as an art of presentations rather than re-presentations.





12 min - Color - HD - 2025