RECKONING
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RECKONING is a feature film (currently in production) created by Psychic Wormhole (Stacy Lynn Smith and Alex Romania)
The team is currently trying to raise $50K to finish production. Read on to find out more about the project - If you would like to contribute to the project, follow the button to make a tax deductible donation.
Everything is always happening; my body is a psychic wormhole.
A feature film created with conceptualist and memoirist Stacy Lynn Smith - in production since 2019.
Looking towards a festival life by 2024.
Psychic Wormhole (Stacy Lynn Smith and Alex Romania) embraces a multidisciplinary, collaborative approach to making in the creation of their feature length film, RECKONING. Dance forms - improvisation, somatics and butoh - meld with experimental visual design and object creation filtered through genres of Horror, SciFi and Arthouse Cinema.
Trauma is a psychic wormhole; a triggering entry point which folds present experience through past sensations of memories that live within the body, creating overwhelming, interconnected, parallel realities through traversable time.
Everything is always happening; my body is a psychic wormhole.
Psychic Wormhole reckons with the devastations of trauma and its relationship to memory and the body, ultimately centering the body as memory-keeper and radical creator.
Psychic Wormhole / RECKONING has achieved project support along the way from the Queens Council on the Arts, the Brooklyn Arts Council, Movement Research and the City Artist Corps Grant.
'Fragments of the Self journey through the
curvatures of time, holding space for
each Other as They mine shame,
extending lifelines to the Exiles.
Out in the swamps, strange bodied flares
give way to undoing visions.
Reckoning with trauma is a full time job.
RECKONING is an abstract memoir/collage of body memory, centering Smith’s lived experience as a neurodivergent, mixed race/Black body grappling with the never-ending nightmare that is childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and Complex-PTSD. Their history of intergenerational and racial trauma, mental illness, grief, marginalization, invisibility and "Otherness” is excavated as body reclamation; mining the subconscious alongside the imagination’s role in realizing personal survival, selfhood and radical futurity.
RECKONING conceptualizes Smith’s autobiography through abstract, non-linear, cinematic and choreographic conversations, capturing the essence of aesthetic feeling-states. Internality and environment intertwine; aspects of the Self that were fragmented early in life due to developmental trauma are centered throughout, each existing within a particular aesthetic, embodying place as a hyper-realized sensibility. Within this world, moments of manipulated time personify Smith’s experiences with Complex-PTSD and the warped feeling living with trauma exudes. RECKONING honors the healing power of nature. Being a part of the intrinsic wisdom of the natural world is a spiritual experience. Nature acts as messenger, witness, container and guide, enabling the body full support and realization.
Both Smith and Romania have extensive backgrounds in collaboration, improvisation and process as research. RECKONING is a combination of deep research and durational improvisation, utilizing scores and concepts versus set material. Smith and Romania engage in performance/filmic duets within environments, mining discipline-specific practices, synthesizing separate and overlapping research. The process of making the film is the film itself and the technology is the body and place.
Stacy Lynn Smith originated the project as Conceptualist, Memoirist, Researcher and Choreographer and delivers an on screen Performance. Alex Romania joined the project bringing cinematic and object based expertise as Cinematographer, Filmmaker, and Wearables Creator. The duo share in the roles of Director, Editor and Visual Designer, as their collaboration spurs new conceptual ground through shared vision.
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Get in touch with us : reckoningthefilm@gmail.com