Forever (9:16)
Water (4:48)
Sodium Lamp Study (5:34)
Cowboys and Iodine (6:02)
Cure (5:23)
The Weight of Snow (15:24)
Dust (3:09)
Series Full-Length Version (43:44)
A project spanning three years of production and research, Lion is a collection of 7 short films exploring the Chernobyl disaster, the nature of radiation, memory, and personal history.
Conceptually arranged in to a film “album”, Lion’s seven works navigate atomic fallout and a girl’s adolescence, a dream before death, radiation as a cause and cure for cancer, masculine bravado, feminine obsession, a trip to Chernobyl amongst the death of a matriarch, and the destruction of memory.
Composed of seven works, Lion is a series of films created on 16mm and hand processed with darkroom techniques that mimic the effects of radiation on film. Researched in Chernobyl, the series is a product of memories, history, pop culture and technical experiments to create visual representations of invisible forces.
screenings
Lion (as complete series)
Presented at 286h British Film Institute London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, March 2014
Presented at Queer Lisboa 18, Queer Art section, September 2014
Presented at Cinémathèque Québécoise in Nature/Culture, October 2014
Presented at 17th Antimatter [Media Art], Victoria BC, October 2014
Presented at 4th Pink Life KuirFest, Ankara, Turkey, January 2015
Presented in Radiant Bodies, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, June 2015
Presented at Oslo/Fusion International Film Festival, Oslo, September 2015
Presented at Imagine Science Film Festival, Museum of the Moving Image, New York, October 2015
Presented at Film for Artists Residency, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto, June 2016
Forever
Selected for Berlinale Film Cloud 2014, Private market for curators, February 2014
Presented at Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, December 2014, International Competition
Presented at 2014 LIFT Film Round-Up, Toronto, January 2015
Presented in NO HOME, Mothlight Microcinema, Detroit, August 2015
Cowboys and Iodine
Presented at MIX Copenhagen, October 2014, Experimental program
The Weight of Snow
Presented at 60th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, CFMDC Market Screening, May 2014
Presented at Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, BLACK BOX/WHITE CUBE Lecture
Presented at 18th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, October 2014, Fascinations Competition
