FILMS
DEAR FRIEND
Drawing on the grieving process, Dear Friend unfolds through a Man writing a letter to a recently deceased friend. Tapping into the foreign and feminine aspects of the Man’s emotional life, he outpours an honest, at times darkly humoured, account of his friend’s death, seeking resolution.
HAPPINESS IS CAPRICIOUS
Commissioned for The Rickshaw House Gallery’s exhibition ‘The Four Seasons – Autumn’ September 2010.
Happiness is Capricious is a visual representation of the limited percent of time a human being will actually feel uncontaminated happiness.
The work itself is a study of how day-to-day life can be simultaneously varied and mundane, resulting to a lack of contentment. The visual aesthetic shows two balloons moving in random, abstract directions against the backdrop of a nondescript brick wall. The balloons attempt to settle into a gentle decent (representing the difficulty in attaining happiness and contentment in life) but are continuously hampered by outside forces – and even themselves at times, as they crash aggressively into each other. The balloons move to the sounds of underwater breathing apparatus, a ticking clock and occasional white noise, reiterating how trite life can become.
THE RIGHT TIME
Currently in preproduction with a release date of November 2013, The Right Time is a short film enthusiastically obsessed with when a certain action should take place.
From a short story described as antisocial in its sentiment and content, The Right Time decimates the idea of what actions are acceptable in the state of pure happiness. We follow a woman who exudes happiness in a pure aesthetic form and her narration reiterates to the viewer that she is, indeed, in a state absent of all that is not contented. The action that follows this woman’s epiphany confounds society’s expectations. The film challenges when the right time is for… anything.
