Untitled (2021)
The Image of Memory
(Video Installation, Bard College, Exhibition 07_2021)
Filmed in Ohio, the video is an excerpt from a longer project. It is a visual exploration using the camera and other material means to try and “figure out” what happened to a family after a brother went to live in a mental healthcare correctional facility in Ohio eight years ago. The work explores memory and eventually, the longer-form film will look at the carcerality of the mental healthcare system and the ways it affects people and the families within it. There is an accompanying essay that writes about how conversations and learning collaborations, current psychological research (or lack thereof), and creative exchange including music, has helped people in their community work through grief and even recover from PTSD, while simultaneously providing a critical analysis of the mental healthcare industry.