Stages of Mourning2004

I ritualize a lament through a performance to camera, the coming to terms with the loss of my partner, Sandra Lahire. A journey of mourning incorporates a staging both for myself and for the camera. The hallucinatory power of the phantom of memory is set alongside the nature of lens based material to carry ghosts. Textures of the skin and voice of the deceased are infused with the pixellation and grain of photograph, film and video. –S. P.

shot on 16mm