- 7 minutes – HD Video – Color
- My role: Writer/Director/Cinematographer/Editor
A young woman is troubled by dreams of a life that isn’t hers.
If I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers. This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. For ever shall I be a stranger to myself.
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
Director’s statement
I made this film as a sort of study for some Big Ideas I’ve been chewing over in my work recently: dissociated identities, the instability of our concept of self, and the ways in which we might inhabit (and be inhabited by) other people. I think the piece functions on its own, but it’s also my first attempt at working with some of these themes in other contexts.
The film features Isabelle Rashkin as the unnamed protagonist, and is heavily influenced by the density, excess, and obscurity of early Peter Greenaway films.