An Ode to Grief is an attempt to communicate across the past and possible futures, the material and immaterial. By utilising a rapid panning camera technique the image starts to tear apart revealing different ways of seeing, of experiencing the present moment. The resulting array of light puts forth glimpses of other dimensions, displacing the image across space and time. What I believe we are seeing is pure visual information, what our eyes filter out, life without context, possible routes and journeys communicating in and outside of this moment in time. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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An Ode to Grief was constructed through images of trees from below, these were then buried under layers of one another. The film was edited more or less frame by frame. ​​​​​Functioning as a bridge to my other work, this film was shot on the same camcorder my parents used to record home videos during my childhood.  

[poem cited Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus I, 2]