Farrah Klement was released from the sanitarium three days ago for her thirtieth birthday. She wakes with smeared eyeliner, a blistering hangover and the sickening realization that her life is going nowhere. She decides to celebrate it all by going off her meds.
Still grieving a death in the family and shaking from withdrawal, Farrah makes the annual drive upstate to celebrate her birthday the same way she has every year-- with her small circle of velvet-caped friends and a Winter Solstice moon overhead. But this birthday is different...Farrah has arrived at the party with a mysterious woman in a wheelchair, with no knowledge herself of who this mute woman is or where she came from.
As we lurch backwards and forwards in time across Farrah’s mental trajectory, her ne’er do well friends carry on with the night’s debauchery and Farrah begins to tie together the disparate pieces of the metaphysical puzzle-- a ringing cell phone, a violent fight with her sister, an approaching police car— only to unravel an even darker riddle.
Written and directed by Student Academy Award-winning filmmaker Mitch McCabe, This Corrosion follows the mental unraveling of a young woman haunted by her past and her impossible future as it examines life and its choices at their most brutally simple and deafeningly tragic heights. Told through a boldly abstract framework of jarring flashbacks, impressionistic motifs and tense, telling confrontations, This Corrosion draws on the filmmaker’s recent abstract work (September 5:10 PM) to make a haunting, rhythmic ensemble film that dwells upon mortality with familiar intimacy. As the film skids to its disturbing conclusion, our perceptions of temporality and reality become un-hinged; is the party a celebration or a window into something else?
