There’s a Hole in the World Where You Used to Be

THERE'S A HOLE IN THE WORLD WHERE YOU USED TO BE is a short, experimental film about memory and mourning, and about grief that overflows or fits poorly into the usual containers. It departs from the premise that both grief and black holes are so dense and intense that they bend space and time around their specific gravity - warping perspectives, reshaping the physical world, and throwing those caught in their orbit out of temporal sync. It combines still and moving images shot by the filmmaker with black hole simulations sourced from NASA, public satellite imagery, onscreen text, and spatialized 5.1 channel sound design. Throughout, old and new material blurs together to create spatial and temporal disjunctions. As the title indicates, THERE'S A HOLE IN THE WORLD WHERE YOU USED TO BE is concerned with the way grief can feel simultaneously personal and political, individual and collective; each absence felt as both a wound in the heart and a hole in the world.