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When a team of explorers ventures into the uncharted maze of bones that lies beneath the streets of Paris, they embark on a journey into madness and terror.

The film opens in 1945 with a young boy playing in his Chicago neighborhood, and then follows the adult Jita-Hadi as a returning Marine with heightened political consciousness.

This hushed, pared-down essay weaves together different facts and myths surrounding the moon: images, texts, and sounds are spun into a dense, delicate tissue of ideas, with humans both at the centre and infinitely small in this celestial context.

For thousands of years, alchemists toiled to synthesize rare substances and universal cures, to manipulate the speed of natural processes. Today, a woman has her husband’s ashes transformed into a memorial diamond. Precious metals are extracted from obsolete electronics. What was once the world’s largest landfill– now also the final resting place of the World Trade Center’s remains– is being converted into a public park. The film intimately examines various transmutations, both microscopic and massive, that reshape matter and its meanings. What separates the permanent from the impermanent, the things we discard from those we preserve?

As Above, So Below is a two-channel HD video that uses everyday objects to depict parallels between the cosmic and subatomic realms. The piece draws from the notion of macrocosm/microcosm as originated by the 16th century theologian Robert Fludd. Macrocosm and microcosm are terms from religious esotericism that refer to a vision of the cosmos reflected within a smaller part of itself. As Above, So Below is made with everyday materials to draw parallels between micro and macro – the commonplace and the divine.

Empathy begins with acknowledging the position of our body in the world, not simply in relation to a different body, but also across time and dimensions. Food spans all aspects of our lives, from the most profane everyday nourishment to the sacrifices that make an anthropological imprint on the collective psyche. It connects science and myth, known and unknown. The meal, the settlement, the landscape, the cosmos, down to the microbial and viral in our guts and in the air—food allows us to discover a new perspective on our world. The film makes use of archival images and microscopic photography of edible substances—fruits, vegetables, grain, fish, vitamins—as metaphors of the macro to create a timeless, scaleless world.

In a quest to combat the dystopian world humans now inhabit, Isaac follows the guidance of a mysterious entity which he believes can return to him all that he has lost.

A close look at the assassin's lifestyle in the film.