Lacuna

Lacuna

2008, Canada, 16mm, colour, sound, 9 min. 30 sec.

Different textures of grief and acceptance emerge and the camera eye becomes a lens into the interior. Space is inhabited by memory; memory becomes a gesture that seeks the past. Lacuna is a poetic meditation that navigates a landscape of absence, memory and transformation though image and sound.

The process of shooting and editing this film was an intuitive one that was very attached to the process of working through a loss. In the summer of 2007 my mother died suddenly and unexpectedly from cancer. My connection to her is strong; it is one between mother and daughter and between place and home. This film is an image/sound poem as well as a document of the experience and grief of the loss of my mother.