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May 2024: Human Relationships wins Best Super Short Film at Paris Film Awards, London Movie Awards, and Hollywood Gold Awards
April 2024: Script Windswept becomes a Finalist at the Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards 2024
February 2024: Human Relationships is screened at The Brattle Theater (Boston) as part of the GRRL HAUS CINEMA Film Festival
A Triptych of Loss unites three short films about trauma. Noa’s Place presents a psychoanalytic portrayal, with its protagonist Noa suffering from the ghostly wound of a “missing origin“ she must continuously account for. Matty’s Ennui and Patrick’s Pursuit take a more playful approach and reflect on trauma as one’s ongoing becoming as a result of encountering others. While Matty is afraid to change and leave his enclosure of stability, Patrick chooses a path of discovery, where life cannot be but risked.
With Noa staring into the murky ocean, Matty being stuck in the mucky field, and Patrick chasing a star in the Milky Way, the anthology captures experiences of loss, ranging from tragic to comedic. Each protagonist leads one of the films and makes an appearance in the others, thus weaving the three shorts into a single narrative, illuminated by their perspectives and inviting the audience to embrace the traumatic nature of being with compassion and laughter.
POV: A Home of Alterity
Arts 2023, 12(3), 84
Abstract: Challenging the idea of “home” as a safe refuge, or an enclosure of stability, this article explores ways in which home can be envisioned as an ontological space of becoming, where life is always risked. “POV: A Home of Alterity” is conceived within a deconstructivist theoretical framework and asks the question of how home can be perceived as an open text — a locus of oscillation between inside and outside — for the purpose of revealing home as an inherently traumatic “event,” which presupposes an openness to absolute alterity. To show the traces of otherness in one’s experience of being present (at home), it examines a photograph from Julia Borissova’s project DOM: Document Object Model and sets out to interrogate the concept of “home” through three relationships wherein it emerges: (1) between inside and outside, (2) between the I and the other, and (3) between the I and oneself. Consequently, this article seeks to define home as a representational space of one’s own alterity, where one surrenders to one’s non-coincidence with oneself and hence to experience itself, ultimately revealing that, in an aporetical way, home encrypts the very dislocation it “promises” to shield from.
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In “City Dimensions,“ the monumental scope of metropolises is shrunk to a scale model, embedded through double exposure into scenes more reminiscent of theatrical sets than realistic landscapes. This series shot on 35mm unsettles the perception of the solidity of the great cities’ foundations and portrays them as flexible dimensions, built relative to time, place, and culture.
