Alex Fields: "Avant-garde film, 'difficult' or narratively elliptical film, can sometimes serve as a mirror for our own tangled thoughts, a labyrinth to explore the semantic twists and turns of the signifiers we may otherwise fail to question. The images in Levers seem to belong to a narrative film, but you’d be hard pressed to discern the narrative. There are vital bits of context: the sun has not risen for a day, and on the previous day a new sculpture was unveiled in the small Manitoban town of Ste. Anne. But this context informs not so much event or character as feeling. We’re invited to make meaning of what little we can see in this darkened world, but not to consider meaning as something settled or determined."