Beside Themself

"Beside Themself" is "a short video set in the unwritten space of a digital plane. It is a world not yet made, or as yet unmade, and to my viewing explores the preemptory motions of action. It echoes an about-to-happen through its repetition and halting movements. The text running across the screen reminds one of thoughts running around and around in their head, the sort of mental planning done before a confrontation or a confession. The hesitancy in the shapes, the blurring of possible bodies and possible conversation, the monotonous urgency of the voiceover all coalesce into an unsettlement of what it means to get or say something 'right.'" — From the editor's note, New River Journal