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perfectly a strangeness

perfectly a strangeness

2024

Director

Alison McAlpine

Runtime

15 minutes

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Synopsis

In the dazzling incandescence of an unknown desert, three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe. A sensorial, cinematic exploration of what a story can be.

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Diversity & Representation

Overall Score

5.3/10

Fair


Category Breakdown

LGBTQ+ Representation

Fair

The film focuses on non-human subjects and environmental stimuli. While it lacks explicit LGBTQ+ identities, its departure from human-centric storytelling avoids reinforcing traditional social hierarchies.

Gender Representation

Fair

This post-humanist study centers on animals and the cosmos. By removing human actors, the narrative bypasses common gender tropes and traditional hierarchies found in mainstream cinema.

Racial & Ethnic Diversity

Fair

The desert observatory setting emphasizes landscape and cosmic scale. There is no evidence of human casting to evaluate for racial or ethnic diversity.

Religious & Cultural Diversity

Good

The film disrupts anthropocentric views by centering animals as observers of the universe. It prioritizes a secular, cosmic perspective over traditional religious or institutional frameworks.

Disability Representation

Minimal

The focus on animal subjects and environmental textures provides no information regarding the representation of human neurodivergence or physical disabilities.

Strengths

  • Disrupts anthropocentric perspectives by centering non-human observers.
  • Avoids traditional gender and social hierarchies by removing human actors.
  • Offers a unique, secular, and cosmic approach to storytelling.

Areas for Improvement

  • Lacks specific human character data to support intersectional representation.
  • Provides no representation for human neurodivergence or physical disabilities.

AI Analysis

McAlpine’s documentary is a work of formalist experimentation that finds diversity through narrative deconstruction rather than demographic inclusion. By displacing the human subject, the film challenges the expectation that stories require human agency or social conflict. The film operates within a post-humanist framework, which inherently disrupts traditional Western hierarchies of identity. However, because the premise is non-narrative and animal-centric, it lacks the character-driven data necessary for a higher intersectional score. Ultimately, the work's strength lies in its ability to exist outside of conventional social categorizations, even if it cannot actively represent specific human identities.

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