Mouthing

I am a filmmaker producing experimental fiction through soundscapes and fragmented narratives. These narratives are usually arranged as movements, intended to leave space for both the viewer’s and my own imagination. In approaching imagination as a process of discovering what was already there, I seek to tease out the strange resonances and traces of extinction that live behind verbal, conventional patterns of experience. With this in mind, I am drawn to humour, eeriness and intensity as atmospheric devices for discouraging the tendency to warp things into our comprehension. Most of my work explores the idea of catastrophe, how it hangs ephemerally as ‘events’ and operates as a latent shadow of contemporary life. I see all communication as an insane, desperate attempt to produce meaning and escape the loneliness of an inevitable death. Increasingly, what interests me is how the notion of expression lies in perpetual tension with the vast, indifferent processes exceeding it. Be that the technical conditions enabling communication, ecological systems or the distant, spooky action of space.