The Coldest Day of the Year

video, 8:36 min, 2020

The Coldest Day of the Year takes place in a future where a cataclysmic event has made tracing a coherent meaning of the past and recounting a narrative of the present impossible. The narrator believes she has seen another being in this destroyed landscape. She attempts to find this figure and recounts a journey that traces the shadows of her presence. Using temporary sets, props and collaged images, The Coldest Day of the Year recounts an attempt to understand an ever shifting horizon and the possibility of dwelling.

I created this work after reading The Wall by Marlen Haushofer (a female Robinson Crusoe story) as a response to some of the ideas in this book.

Created as part of the LUX Creation and Dissemination Residency, a partnership between Videographe, Main Film, PRIM, and OBORO. Distributed by Videographe.

Selected Screenings: Antimatter Film Festival (2020), Canadian Cultural Center Paris (2021), Place M Tokyo (2021), Festival du film sur l’art (2021)