Arabesque for Dad (work in progress)
Film
Duration 4:12 minutes, Super 8 colour 4:3, silent
These silent images were shot last summer while in the process of emptying my father’s house — the family home for three generations, built for my grandmother. This filmpoem conveys the outer walls of an empty garden, where a few flowers persist as Nature has reclaimed its rights. A few discarded, worthless objects abandoned on the gravel by movers, and (fake) animals form a portrait in absence, where the living and non-living cohabit at the end of a cycle.
This film is the first piece of a triptych on absence, loss, and filiation, followed by the films SŒUR (in absentia) and All tomorrow’s unhad children.
Film
Duration 4:12 minutes, Super 8 colour 4:3, silent
These silent images were shot last summer while in the process of emptying my father’s house — the family home for three generations, built for my grandmother. This filmpoem conveys the outer walls of an empty garden, where a few flowers persist as Nature has reclaimed its rights. A few discarded, worthless objects abandoned on the gravel by movers, and (fake) animals form a portrait in absence, where the living and non-living cohabit at the end of a cycle.
This film is the first piece of a triptych on absence, loss, and filiation, followed by the films SŒUR (in absentia) and All tomorrow’s unhad children.