Less a film than an experience, Jorge Jácome’s Super Natural is the kind of work that only achieves the sort of transcendence it aspires towards if the viewer is willing to meet it halfway. Unfortunately for me, doing so is easier said than done considering most of the narration (subtitled computer noises reminding me of videogames that don’t have the budget to hire voice actors) is very clearly trying to engage with me throughout. That device can work when the questions being asked are rhetorical in a way that ensures I cannot actually answer them before the artwork provides its own answer instead. Jácome and co-writers André Teodósio and José Maria Vieira Mendes, however, implore us to speak aloud. They demand participation as though the interaction is catered to me.
Because I know it’s not, anything I say or think is inherently rendered silly. And I understand...
Because I know it’s not, anything I say or think is inherently rendered silly. And I understand...
- 2/23/2022
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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