Manhattan Film Festival

Chance is unavoidable. It guides our daily experience in tiny ways—it is the beginning of every love story or grand adventure. I am interested in how chance transforms an artwork, an artist, and the viewer; in letting chance blurs the lines between life and art. The psychogeographic dérive is a (dis)organized way of taking chances—in my practice, an urban drifting, a reassuring justification for my natural tendency to become hopelessly lost, or perhaps a means of falling in love. On a Sunday in late September, my partner and I undertook an indeterminate psychogeographic date on wheels, asking someone at each new location to suggest our next destination as we bicycled around the city of Minneapolis. Exploring the city, we explore each other, documenting our progress via cellphone, the modern day caméra-stylo. Here is a chronicle of our psychogeographic journey, a series of chances, that begin to trace the spirit of a relationship, with one another and with our city. Runtime: 10m30s (Minneapolis, USA)