I scratch you

 

Scratch

 

Do you want to be this guy? And I’m the baby dinosaur, okay?

 

Daddy!

 

Scratch.

 

Daddy!

 

What sword do you want, Daddy?

 

What sword do you want, Dadda?

 

What sword do you want?

 

Daddy, what sword do you want?

 

Fish.

 

No, what sword do you want?

 

What sword do you want?

 

Should we get the sword?

 

Come, hold this.

 

 

Acorn was spontaneously filmed during a family

holiday by the sea. As a response to the intense energy

between my brother and his son—the performative,

cinematic game they played in front of me in a beach

setting. Along with round fifteen all sound, made later

that year, it became the foundation for a new direction

in my practice, focusing on performativity between

staged and documentary video and the possibilities of

editing and narrative within them.

On a material level, Acorn can be seen as a character

study of a child and their parent, enacting what Freud

defined as the reality principle—a negotiation between

instinct and external reality.

 

Through the production of this work, I became

increasingly interested in how perception of reality

changes with time, and how families and relationships

function as microcosms where power dynamics unfold

and can be observed. In my upcoming work, I continued to

explore these elements in different variations, including

another study of a child-parent relationship in the works

currently.