North American Premiere
Time, memory, and grief are explored in this close look at the preservation of an unidentified creature.
Supported by
Community Broadcast Partner
Community Partner
Canada/France
2021
In English and French with English subtitles
Featured in:
VIFF Short Forum: Program 6
Cinematic form is given to life’s big mysteries: luck and fate, love and loss, and the spiritual supernatural.
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Credits
Producer
Marion Pillas
Cinematography
Kendra McLaughlin
ANIM
Guangli Liu
Editor
Kendra McLaughlin, Yuyan Wang
Director
Kendra McLaughlin
Kendra McLaughlin is a Canadian artist and researcher working with moving images. Her hybrid films often dialogue between inquiry and emotion, investigating how notions of memory, belonging, and trauma inform human relationships to land. She has participated in Le Fresnoy’s studio program and in Bruno Latour’s School of Political Arts (SPEAP), and received a Master’s in Human Rights from Sciences Po, and a Bachelor’s in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University.