This Line Connects the Void (2023)

• 80%
• 2023
• Tram Nghiem

Filmed in the artist's family apartment on the edge of Parkdale in the city of Toronto, this work explores the poetics of grief and precarity for the family around the time of death and dying regarding the artist's sister. With non-linear storytelling and fragmented images, the work moves between speculative fiction, documentary, and experimental film. Referencing Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee (1982) and Anne Carson's poem On Walking Backwards (1995), it considers the space and metaphor of a void and the desire that moves between the dead and living.