Tram Nghiem

Canadá

Filmed in the artist’s family apartment on the outskirts of Parkdale, Toronto, this work explores the poetics of mourning and the precariousness of the family at the moment of death and dying in relation to the artist’s sister. With a non-linear narrative and fragmented images, the work moves between speculative fiction, documentary and experimental film. Referencing Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee (1982) and Anne Carson’s poem On Walking Backwards (1995), it considers the space and metaphor of a void and the desire that moves between the dead and the living.