Short film, 2021. 17 mins.
Do Not Circulate, an experimental short film directed by Tiffany Sia, considers the materiality of video in networked circulation, unraveling the entrails of a collective memory around a single event. Paced by an essay as a relentless voiceover, the film rips footage that challenges the ownership and legal boundaries of documentation. The film weaves a violent timeline in roughly the order that the materials were published online, including anonymously uploaded videos from Twitter and internet forums, allegedly leaked audio and news reportage––much of which has since been erased, disavowed or forgotten. A digital media trail teeters between the seeable and unseeable, deception and truth, conjuring ghosts and occult forces on the timeline.
“Social Studies: Tony Pipolo on ‘Currents’ at the 59th New York Film Festival” by Tony Pipolo. Artforum, September 24, 2021.
“59th New York Film Festival, ‘Currents’” by Herb Shellenberger. Art-agenda, November 12, 2021.
“Notes from the Field: Tiffany Sia.” Sentient. Art. Film., October 1, 2021.
New York Film Festival – New York, NY
Double Exposure Film Festival – online
Linea d’Ombra Festival – Salerno, Italy
Marsèll – Milan, Italy
Hordaland Kunstsenter – Bergen, Norway
e-flux (upcoming) – online
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (upcoming) – Chicago, IL