Broth Ritual (2020) unfolds as a speculative meditation on origin, matter, and becoming, positioning itself between cinematic abstraction, performative gesture, and ontological inquiry. The work proposes broth not merely as metaphor but as medium: a primordial substance through which life, memory, and sociality are rehearsed. Suspended particles and incandescent light construct a visual field that resists stable figuration, evoking instead a condition of emergence. What is shown is not an image of origin but an operative simulation of it. Visibility remains provisional, as if the world itself were still deciding how to appear. This instability recalls early cosmological imaginaries while aligning with experimental film traditions that privilege perception over representation. Yet Broth Ritual departs from purely optical investigation by anchoring its visual language in a corporeal, almost nutritional logic. Cinema here behaves like matter in suspension: thick, warm, and unresolved. The ritual dimension is crucial. Rather than narrating myth, the work enacts a mythic condition through repetition, slowness, and immersion. In doing so, it reframes ritual as a contemporary epistemic tool—an aesthetic strategy capable of reactivating archaic knowledge without nostalgia. The viewer is not invited to interpret but to inhabit a state of pre-formal awareness, where matter, light, and body are still coalescing.
