Thousand Thrashing Arms

In Thousand Thrashing Arms, Mimi experiments with the relationship between liberation, dreams and movement by weaving together found footage with the original film. Drawing on the words of Frantz Fanon—“The first thing which the native learns is to stay in his place and not to go beyond certain limits... I dream I am jumping, swimming, running, climbing”—the film invokes a fractured dream, by layering pixelated imagery onto high-resolution footage, in order to stretch the viewer’s imagination of liberatory insurgencies.