CIRCUIT BITTER
A descent into anger, a return to grace. Circuit Bitter invites you to look closer, to sit with the emotions that bind and the insights they reveal.
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Circuit Bitter is a mixed media exploration of resentment, one of the most corrosive human emotions. Told in two parts, it blends raw, personal storytelling with a digital reflection space that invites the audience not only to witness but to interrogate their own resentments. The first piece is a confessional. It begins in a city park, where I encounter a man caught in a heated argument with the voices in his head. His rage, raw and unrestrained, becomes a mirror. From there, I trace my own story of falling in love, building dreams of a shared future, and then discovering betrayal. What follows is an unraveling: fantasies of revenge, visions so vivid they gripped me like possession. Like the man in the park, I was haunted—consumed by characters of the mind. But the story does not end in rage. I turn inward, peeling back the layers of my own resentment. In doing so, I see the ways I tried to force love where it didn't exist—an attempt to erase my own fear of being unlovable. Perhaps I was as much at fault for how things played out in the relationship. This acknowledgment does not excuse the betrayal, but it reframes the pain. In seeing where I was wrong, and in recognizing my ex-partner's humanity, forgiveness became possible. The resentment loosened. The path toward healing began. The second piece, the interactive, extends this reflection outward. It is a conversational tool powered by AI and grounded in the Five Whys method of inquiry. Through spoken dialogue, it guides participants to peel back their own layers of resentment: the surface anger, the fear beneath it, the wound beneath that. The dialogue space unfolds within a living visual environment. As the conversation progresses, the AI layer, animated with THREE.js, presents phrases that mirror the emotional texture. Core themes take form and drift across the screen—fragments of emotion set in motion. Together, story and interaction form a loop: the film reveals how resentment entangles us in visions that possess us; the interactive invites us to sit with those visions, unpack them, and discover what lies beneath. Circuit Bitter is not therapy. It is an opening—an invitation to explore one of our most difficult emotions with honesty, depth, and perhaps a measure of grace.