Document With No End
Video/Super 8, 10:16min, 2025
This film contends with the impact of environmental collapse on interpersonal relationships, disability, and an “unknown future”. Inspired by Feminist, Queer, Crip author, Alison Kafer, and her rebuttal of Lee Edelman’s “No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive” - this hybrid speculative fiction and personal film nonlinearly moves across past, present, and future timelines. Refusing to erase the disabled body, the film instead insists upon making illness visible and posing questions regarding grief, loss, and Queer/Crip time. The filmmaker draws connections to her (and her cat’s) autoimmune disease and the Great Salt Lake, a drying body of water in Salt Lake City, Utah, that has become disabled due to capitalism. Questions are posed regarding the future of the planet, human survival, and the feminist negotiations necessary to stay in relationship despite disease and fear.
Screenings:
Images Festival, Toronto CAN
Athens International Film & Video Festival, Athens OH
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor MI
ALL TOO HUMAN - 18th Triennial Symposium for Arts and Technology, Ammerman Center for Technology – Connecticut College, New London CT
Manifesto for Sustainable Experimentation, curated by AL Steiner – Beaconsfield Gallery, London UK