Distillation (WIP)
Grief is universal. Yet living with grief is an individual experience. In 2017 after my maternal grandmother passed away, I took some days off, with family and with myself, to do what I thought was the processing of the end of her life, and to understand the new world that I was living in. More than five years later, it is clear that I am only just beginning to truly live in a world without my elders. distillation is an intimate essay film–part poem, part autoethnography, part meditation–on the process of living after loss. The fleeting memories that warm the spirit, the visceral fragments that freeze the heart, and the everyday actions that connect me with my ancestors. Broken into several chapters, the film reinterprets the platitudes often shared with those in grief, explores griefs that come from other forms of loss, and provides space for reflection, for healing, and for growth, both to the filmmaker and the audience.
Digital Video / Color
Writer / Director / Cinematographer / Editor
Presentations
“Mind and memory, knowledge and spirit” Screening Scholarship Media Festival 2023 (Philadelphia, PA)
Grants and Awards
Stolle Award, Faculty Support Grant, Saint Louis University 2023
