Voroboros (trailer)

Voroboros (2024) is an experimental short that explores survival under capitalism through self-consumption. A series of vignettes evoke the feeling of eating oneself to survive through myth, emotion, history and biology. Ultimately, the film concludes with visions of life beyond survival.

The first part, eating, explores the myth of Erysichthon from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, who fells the favorite tree of Demeter. Enraged, Demeter sends Famine to infect Erysichthon, who finally resorts to eating his own body.

The second part of the film, being eaten, takes form as a vignette in which dancers at a rave must feed parts of themselves to the speaker in order to keep the music going. If the music stops, they die. The cycle of consumption repeats into infinity.

The third and final part of the film moves in and through these cycles of self-consumption, seeking inspiration from the natural world. The final images attempt to decenter individual suffering by nurturing a relationship with the environment, including the others with whom it is shared.