Hyperopia, the two-channel video installation by Ruth Angel Edwards and Chloée Maugile, unravels like a contemporary fable over a period of around 45 minutes, weaving together sci-fi, folk traditions, and the disorienting allure of psychedelia. Told through a series of fragmented vignettes, the film navigates a hyper-real and claustrophobic landscape where communication is not only amplified but almost suffocating. The characters, in search of connection and caught in a frantic urgency to project their egos, inhabit a space where every gesture and word reverberates with heightened intensity.
Set against the Cambridgeshire countryside, in and around the decommissioned 1950s Mullard Radio Telescopes, Hyperopia plays with the tension between constructed environments and the natural world. The film reflects upon the dissonance between mediated realities and the tangible world as its characters move among the remnants of obsolete technology. In so doing, it evokes modern day anxieties—a deep unease stemming from the ceaseless amplification of self and the ways in which connection itself can increasingly feel like alienation.
Set against the Cambridgeshire countryside, in and around the decommissioned 1950s Mullard Radio Telescopes, Hyperopia plays with the tension between constructed environments and the natural world. The film reflects upon the dissonance between mediated realities and the tangible world as its characters move among the remnants of obsolete technology. In so doing, it evokes modern day anxieties—a deep unease stemming from the ceaseless amplification of self and the ways in which connection itself can increasingly feel like alienation.