Floor of the World

In a shifting landscape of dirt and sky, excavation and construction merge. Figures move back and forth between life and death, and possibly somewhere else. The ephemerality of existence is mundane knowledge in this world, where numbers mark the way. The floor of the world turns out to be easily pierced, liquid, permeable.From Film Threat:“The idea of hidden figures, constantly emerging and being buried again, is suggestive of multiple human experiences. Geiser’s aim, it seems, is not so much to tell a particular story, but to create a kind of fertile image and sound garden, where the seeds of many, many stories are just sprouting and starting to grow. “The Floor of the World” is not so much a particular story, but a kind of fertile setting, seething with psychic possibilities. The result is a highly poetic cinema, which seems to touch us on many levels, and suggesting a way of living in the world with a lively sense of responsiveness to the images and sounds which surround us. “