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Videos
Wake for a Horse, part I (1 minute excerpt)
2023In a faraway land, a wanderer poet announces the news of the death of a horse. Two sisters living secluded in the desert then prepare a mourning ritual. Following a mysterious long lost tradition, they work on creating a “jar of sorrows”: they walk in the desert to harvest clay and make a pottery jar to collect and encapsulate their tears, which they seal and bury to honor the deceased horse. ‘Wake for a Horse’ follows the evolution of their sisterhood, through their journey of loss.
Added on: August 2, 2024
Wake for a Horse, part II (1 minute excerpt)
2023In a faraway land, a wanderer poet announces the news of the death of a horse. Two sisters living secluded in the desert then prepare a mourning ritual. Following a mysterious long lost tradition, they work on creating a “jar of sorrows”: they walk in the desert to harvest clay and make a pottery jar to collect and encapsulate their tears, which they seal and bury to honor the deceased horse. ‘Wake for a Horse’ follows the evolution of their sisterhood, through their journey of loss.
Added on: August 2, 2024
Does Spring Hide Its Joy (2 minutes excerpt)
2022‘Does Spring Hide Its Joy’ is an immersive audio experience by American composer Kali Malone featuring musicians Stephen O’Malley and Lucy Railton. The music is a study in long-form, non-linear durational composition, with a heightened focus on septimal just intonation and beating interference patterns. I directed a film accompanying the piece; filming the ruins of the hydraulic tower in Birkenhead Docks in a trembling portrait of this industrial place where nature has quietly reclaimed its rights. Introducing a human presence in this desolate space through the camera’s feverish wandering, I endeavoured not to just film the building as a monumental empty skeleton but to film together with its collapsed roof, its holes, the moss and debris scattered on the floor, but also all the living creatures who made this ruin their kingdom. This film was commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices (Liverpool) and funded by Arts Council England.
Added on: August 2, 2024
The Things That Change (43 seconds excerpt)
2021Ghosts, psychedelism, and drifting. A phantasmagoric film capturing a mysterious ritual washing by night. As the splashing gesture is repeated, water begins turning darker and darker. Through hypnotic movements, the film changes through the form of rythmic fluidity. Almost like in some acid trip, once the water becomes unreconizable do we then see this transfortion of the body and self fading into the night and thus becoming invisible to the viewer. This film was funded by DRAC PACA.
Added on: August 2, 2024
The Crying Mountain (exhibition documentation)
2024The Crying Mountain is a sound and video installation calling for the audience’s participation by accomplishing a collective ritual. Dealing with themes of mourning, ghosts, and rituals, which have been recurring in my practice, it aims to create a space for mourning via an intimate and collective gesture. This work engages with the difficulty of truly making the experience of grief, processing loss, remembering, and honoring our dead in our contemporary epoch. The film on the right depicts a mythical evocation of a woman saint’s martyrdom, showing a naked woman’s body seemingly endlessly tumbling on a dune of hard white sand until the repetition of that movement eventually leaves the skin bleeding, and plunging her hands into an animal’s heart. The film on the left shows a desolate landscape of burned forest as an organic and ambivalent depiction of loss, as fire also has regenerative power. They are accompanied by the sound recording of two poems, one telling the myth of that fictional saint, the other, a sort of agnostic prayer about loss, bringing attention to random gestures of kindness and expressing the hope for a new, symbolic home, away from capitalist ventures. The ritualistic gesture accompanying the installation invites the audience to write a note to a deceased loved one on a seed-embedded piece of paper and bury it in a pile of soil in the gallery space. I bind myself with the audience through a social contract as the installation operates as a constant exchange. Pinned on the wall, is a handwritten letter to participants where I promise to replant the notes they have entrusted me with in nature so they can bloom. This installation also addresses the gallery space it transforms into a provisional space of communion for strangers, offering a moment of mental rest, for one’s pain to be acknowledged and shared, and a suspended moment of introspection when we can take the time to think about and speak to our dead.
Added on: August 2, 2024