Through Venus.
“Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.”
-Toni Morrison, Beloved
In this short experimental film/video piece, titled Through Venus, I am exploring themes of inheritance(s), mothering, girlhood/womanhood and affection. I draw from my own lived experiences as well as women and mother centered stories and memories that are shared through and between us as markers of both our history and subjectivity. Inspiration is found within the bond and complexities of our relationships, and the ways in which things are not only passed down through multiple generations of women, but also back up and sideways as well.
Throughout the film, I use a range of visual mediums while layering our images and voices: iPhone clips, archival video and photographs, while considering the implications of intimate multigenerational dynamics. The film combines intimate oral histories and conversations with a non-linear editing style to create a sense of slippage and destabilization. With this collage style approach, I am collapsing our different planes of time and space, creating the sense that family matters between women do not lay quietly in the past, but rather transcend, echo and reverberate.