Hansel and Gretel get Kicked Out Film

A found-footage détournement of retail-theft surveillance, in which the criminalizing gaze of the surveillance footage is subverted by recasting capitalism as an abusive, carceral parent. Quotes transcribed from YouTube creators who were kicked out of their homes as teens are repurposed to ‘speak back’, buttressed by ‘poor’ low-resolution videos of stealing. Hansel and Gretel Get Kicked Out allegorizes capitalism—and the commodification of the self—by reconfiguring dissociated internet clips into a unified chorus of forlorn rage. Music from Flowers of Romance by Michel Henritzi.

MilleFeuille

MilleFeuille confections pre-existing, found footage into metaphors about ambient cruelty and decadent melancholia. Clips of random daily life are recast as scenes imbued with mythic allusions, and familiar locations are transformed into paradoxical spaces. The intention is not to subsume the original footage and its first context into a singular narrative or message, but rather to inhabit the slippery terrain of found-footage multivalence. MilleFeuille’s previous confections include Suzon (2024), The Kittens’ Tea Party (2022), Papa Is in the Garden (2021), Cupid’s Fever (2021), and Drive with Persephone (2018).