Public online release: Wednesday 14 January 2026 at 17:00 GMT
Swirls of Fortune (13’, 2025) is a speculative short developed within The Sphere that treats swirl not as a character alone but as an operative form: a pattern where gathering tips into dispersal and back again. Guided by Swirl, we move through cybernetic clowns, NPC choreographies, and a newborn bureaucracy; bodies and code blur at the threshold where automation meets agency. The film unfolds as a chain of metastable vignettes. Images that accumulate intensity, then release it. Rather than illustrate “systems,” it performs them: counting and uncounting, loop and reprise, financial meltdowns and electronic dreamscapes that read organization as choreography. Midway, a line anchors the cosmology;
“We merge in gradations—slowly trickling into one another.”
Later:
“We are a maze that can turn into a wheel.”
The point is not solution but morphology: how value and attention change state, how coordination appears as pattern rather than plan. The work keeps its ambiguity, inviting viewers to notice which swirl they’re in—and what it makes possible.
Live event on Karmetplace
https://karmetplace.thesphere.as/1/0x39f7e5bdfb46bf321b8df7803070d27d79361400/1/details
Film link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7qSzJrg2Fc
