Part structural film, part landscape film, this six-screen installation recreates the experience of hypnagogia –the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep– during morning commutes in NYC. It maps the architecture of the six bridges that connect Manhattan to the rest of the world by using an artifact to cover the lens of the camera: the colors and flickers of the videos are a result of the interactions of the artifact and direct sunlight being interrupted by the different architectural features of the bridges.
"This short film was made using a XEROX machine. Each frame is a scan of a low–fi printing of a photograph. I began making it in the last months of 2019, but after the way in which I produced work changed drastically in 2020, I no longer had any motivation to finish it. It was made in a time where my feelings were very confused, and what you see on the screen no longer represents how I feel towards my world. So the film was left incomplete. The images of the abandoned cemetery were shot one day before the events depicted in my series Talk Among Trees. It now feels as a kind of premonition".
