Still and All

Stop Motion Film
13 minutes
2015 - 2017
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This stop motion film is a mother’s letter to her daughter who died the day she was born.
What emerges as a personal account of loss transforms into a universal search for how to live with death if we cannot live without it.

In the attempt to understand something unthinkable and verbalise something unsayable, what is not seen and what is alluded to feeds the viewer's imagination. In the moment of darkness, one might reflect on absence and presence, and remembering and forgetting. The film suggests imagining what life would be like if it was lived in the present where "The past is never dead. It's not even past." (Faulkner, 1951) The poetic narrative is interwoven with literary references that act as connecting thread between a personal experience and universal suffering tying together time gone by with life to come.

Selected stills
Picture
​Solo Exhibition, ACC Gallery Weimar, Germany, 2021