Breaking free from his surroundings against the Brutalist architecture of Ivry-Sur-Seine, movement artist Matthew McCreary translates his unique perception of the world for short film Mr. Bliss. Reflecting on societal pressure and the neurodivergent experience, his abstract choreography communicates the mental and emotional turbulence he navigates daily, traversing obstacles and rebounding from walls within Renée Gailhoustet’s imposing vision for the southeastern Paris suburb.
Directed by Samuel Stephenson and shot on 35mm film, Mr. Bliss centers McCreary as a man disrupted in his reality, caught between the mundane world and a dream state – while attempting to occupy both spaces. Finding beauty in the ordinary between a neglected telephone booth, an empty doorway, or the colour of a hallway, McCreary channels feeling through the odd spaces that most resonate with him – transferring energy into seemingly dead spaces that are easy to overlook. …read more at nowness.com
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