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Affectual Worlding

Vol. 4 (2023): Narratives of Aliveness: Surrendering to Our Inner Worlds

a line connects the void

DOI
https://doi.org/10.25071/2563-3694.125
Submitted
January 9, 2023
Published
2023-06-14

Abstract

The following piece is the script and a selection of still frames of an experimental 16mm film that considers the space of grief and absence held in the everyday. Filmed in the artist’s family apartment on the edge of Parkdale in the city of Toronto, this work follows in the tradition of woman artists depicting interior spaces and domestic life. It explores the poetics of grief and precarity for the family around the time of death and dying regarding the artist’s sister. With non-linear storytelling and fragmented images, the work moves between speculative fiction, documentary, and experimental film. Referencing Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee (1982) and Anne Carson’s poem “On Walking Backwards” (2015), it considers the space and metaphor of a void and the desire that moves between the dead and the living. This work is funded by the Canada Council of the Arts.