Movie Details
Original Language:English
Rituals
DirectorDeborah Findlater
12 min
Plot
Findlaters moving images relate her embodied experience showing closecropped perspectives of her body within the framenails being painted hair braided and her face or body engaged with curative restorative touch as we hear described by Black Feminist theorist Hortense Spillers on the soundtrack We view these actions while thinking about the places in which they take place this work was recorded in the artists bedroom Rituals brings the viewer into an environment of immersive intimacy exploring the complex interplay between independence and interdependence
