You remember DIrector's Statement

"You remember" is my answer to the questions: Have we always been this way? Or is what we think of as a root system, actually a twisted branch that looks like a root? To uncover how we were in the past is to create possibilities of how we can be in the future.

My methodology is rooted in decolonial practice. To separate myself from the system we are living in, I must first understand what it is. I travel through the land I was born on, taking note of what I observe, like an anthropologist. I look to the the indigenous peoples of Turtle Island for direction. By following their lead I begin to hear the rhythm under the surface. I look for an ancestor line, my own indigenous root system. The origin of the colonial system.

I travel through books to find the origin of this system on an island in between three continents in the middle of the Mediterranean. In museums I listen to re-membered artifacts. They whisper information very different from what their museum placards and wall text stated. I put my ear to the transmundane landscape to excavate the knowledge that was buried, I find the porous boundaries of categories, the hubris of species hierarchy, and the misconception of finality.

I do not hide how I make things. I celebrate the imperfectness of my work, as a response to the perfect output of a machine. Instead, you are invited into the engine room of my decisions. The film is created entirely with handmade miniature sets and animation, alternating between exposing the process and rendering it invisible. Prose is accompanied by live, homemade and electronic instruments as well as field recordings on location.