the last time I saw you (2025)
Photography, Poem, Performance: Kym McDaniel
I was asked to give a presentation about my practice at the 2025 Ann Arbor Film Festival’s Film Art Forum. Presenters were asked to present PechaKucha, or, a 6-minute and 40-second presentation consisting of 20 slides shown for 20 seconds each. I had come to the festival directly after the memorial of my dead friend and mentor. The night before the presentation I stared at my empty Powerpoint slides without any care or inspiration to talk about my practice. I decided to show 20 Super 8 stills I had filmed of beds, and talk about the last time I saw my friend. I showed 20 photos and said 28 words.
Writing open letters to the dead can surely be read as a queer crip interruption of the linear time of past/present/future as separate and distinct planes. (Kafer, 2013, p. 42).
Ann Arbor Film Art Forum
Ann Arbor, Michigan
March 26, 2025
ENDINGS
SAFEHouse for the Performing Arts, San Francisco
April 18 & 19, 2025