HD, 16mm, super 8, 2021
The film references imagery and structure from early Surrealist Art and Films. Inspired
by the surrealist novel Nadja by Andre Breton, the film begins, as does the novel, with
the question, “Who am I?” and then launches into an original story of a young woman
who has questions about her birth mother and the mysteries surrounding her life with
her father. Using flashbacks, dreamlike sequences, and visual compositions based on
paintings such as Manet’s “Bar at Folie-Bergeres” and Velazquez’s “Las Meninas,” the
film shuttles between everyday life, memory, fear, and longing—ultimately asking: what
is reality, what is art, what is the self—and what is the nature of the veil that divides or
fails to divide them?