This experimental documentary delves into the director’s own mother-daughter relationship, featuring real-life dialogues between the director and her mother. The narrative unfolds through static, color-framed images of the mother’s empty apartment, capturing a sense of absence and reflection. These intimate conversations reveal layers of shame, resentment, and longing shaped by alcoholism and custody, creating a raw and deeply personal portrait of difficult love. Created as a Bachelor of Fine Arts graduation project, the work was exhibited in the Young Artists 2019 exhibition at Kunsthalle Helsinki.
Shades of light, dark, and significantly grey, are explored in Orbit, which depicts notions of adultery. In this project, which blends elements of concrete and abstract, women of various ages give insights into their thoughts and feelings on their affairs. As they do, the black and white preconceptions slowly begin to melt off rugged, wrinkled, skin, which the camera interprets from an almost obscenely close distance.
The life of the main character goes off the rails when she realizes that she is being rewarded for her youth and beauty in ways that exceed her other achievements. While trying to find a time machine for her life, she drifts deeper into patriarchal beauty rituals, building her identity and happiness on her appearance.
