What does it mean to make connections? On opposite sides of the world, similar stories run their course of love, loss, & dreams - but what happens when these stories finally meet?
This series is rooted in my often confused, often baffling feelings over grieving in its fresh stages, its revelatory experience invariably added to by moving to a new country & culture. I have attempted to decode my dreams & make sense of what my identity has begun to shift towards - as I find other people who share this solitary experience of migratory grief adding layers to the grief of losing love. Grief is an experience that can be extremely isolating but at the same time, you do not wish to share it with anybody, for fear of its value being misinterpreted. At such a juncture, all connections take on new meanings, certain conversations become revelations, and simple, shared intimacies can become unbelievably supportive. But beyond that, the nature of your relationship with yourself is also being renewed & every plan ever made is being revised - it's starting at square one, which asks a lot of not only the grieving mind & soul but also the body.
The reel aims to capture the liminal & transgressive nature of these old dreams that seem to not follow the rules of time & juxtapose it with footage shot around London - a city serving at once as the meeting ground of stories & an escape from old narratives that no longer seem to quite fit anymore.
The accompanying audio is in part taken from real-time conversations with my peer Jordan Taylor Allen, who also features in the video.