Cécile B. Evans’ work moves across installation, video, sculpture, and performance focusing on the value of emotion in contemporary society and its rebellion as it comes into contact with physical, ideological, and technological structures. A Screen Test for an Adaptation of Giselle is an experimental screen test for an ongoing adaptation of the Industrial-era ballet Giselle as an eco-feminist thriller. The original tells the story of a fragile woman, betrayed to death, who rises in an afterlife propagated by a group of so-called scorned women. Now reimagined in a near-future, Giselle and her friends have moved from a failed metropolis to her mother’s rural village to ‘reset society’. An invasion of their successful community by an unnamed presence sets off a contamination of their newly formed ecosystem with old power dynamics. Here, Giselle’s death proposes mutability and multiplicity as a strategy for escape, with the force of natural “cultures” as an ally against the violence of essentialism. Weaving together high and low resolution digital footage, 16mm, VHS recordings, animation, and deep AI, the screen test is a proposal for a hybridized world where multiple realities push to the surface.