'about wintering': an annual short film series (2023-ongoing)

I was learning about the word ‘wintering’ through Katherine May’s book when I started to pick up my Super8, trying to reflect on time, the seasonal changes and how ‘wintering’ comes and goes regardless of the seasons.

This is an annual short film, shot entirely on one roll of film each, which will be released in parts every winter.

Part 1 (2022-23) was the first chapter of an ongoing series that is about my own experience with mental health and losing sense of time. The sound is very abrupt; noisy, silent, some words in between. It was shot on one roll of Super8 film that I left in my camera for almost one entire year; most of the time when I was wintering.

VOICE OVER

Sometimes ………………………………………….

it just does feel ……… as if there is a little bit of cracking all over my hands,

……………….. and my feet,

and it usually comes when there's a little storm ……..

…………..and there's clouds and my head gets a little stuck in it…

it literally doesn't matter what time of the year ………… sometimes it just comes in and

…………………………….. it's there

‘

Part 2 (2024) is about to when and why ‘wintering’ might befall us. It was shot exactly one year after part 1 and focuses of collective grieving and the places we find ourselves in regardless of the destination on earth.

VOICE OVER

One year later… another January, soon there will be

‚a February‘,

and then the month of spring….

Where days apparently are getting brighter and brighter and the earth is awake.

03:45

Again, after a long time of heads are being stuck in the clouds or being stuck in snowstorms in December. But it really doesn't matter, as in spring, faces are covered with flowers and you may not be able to see or smell the daisies.

Now there is light; This year in January it started to get brighter and brighter indeed.

My mother's voice on the phone; Now, we winter. And it's a really different type this time. There's warmth in the branches of a tree and we winter in togetherness. We winter with love. We winter with care. We winter because now we don't know where you are.

04:32

This time of year feels different to every single human, even the ones that taste their coffee in their warm, warm body, somewhere in the south of Spain. Whose body's witness branches filled with dark olives. The bright bright walls around their homes. When we winter, we do it anywhere at any given time

05:31

We winter in the blue hours of the day or in the morning sunshine underneath our favorite places.

05:44

This year the cracks I hear, is the sound of your missing presence when walking on snow. It's all a question about time, space and light.‘

'about wintering': an annual short film series (2023-ongoing)

I was learning about the word ‘wintering’ through Katherine May’s book when I started to pick up my Super8, trying to reflect on time, the seasonal changes and how ‘wintering’ comes and goes regardless of the seasons.

This is an annual short film, shot entirely on one roll of film each, which will be released in parts every winter.

VOICE OVER

Sometimes ………………………………………….

it just does feel ……… as if there is a little bit of cracking all over my hands,

……………….. and my feet,

and it usually comes when there's a little storm ……..

…………..and there's clouds and my head gets a little stuck in it…

it literally doesn't matter what time of the year ………… sometimes it just comes in and

…………………………….. it's there

Part 2 (2024) is about to when and why ‘wintering’ might befall us. It was shot exactly one year after part 1 and focuses of collective grieving and the places we find ourselves in regardless of the destination on earth.

VOICE OVER

One year later… another January, soon there will be

‚a February‘,

and then the month of spring….

Where days apparently are getting brighter and brighter and the earth is awake.

03:45

Again, after a long time of heads are being stuck in the clouds or being stuck in snowstorms in December. But it really doesn't matter, as in spring, faces are covered with flowers and you may not be able to see or smell the daisies.

Now there is light; This year in January it started to get brighter and brighter indeed.

My mother's voice on the phone; Now, we winter. And it's a really different type this time. There's warmth in the branches of a tree and we winter in togetherness. We winter with love. We winter with care. We winter because now we don't know where you are.

04:32

05:31

We winter in the blue hours of the day or in the morning sunshine underneath our favorite places.

05:44

This year the cracks I hear, is the sound of your missing presence when walking on snow. It's all a question about time, space and light.‘

dedicated to Ida, multimedia work (2023-)