Shadowtime

co-directed with Sister Sylvester

You are in two worlds at the same time. Your body is in the other world. But your heart is in this world.

‘Shadowtime’ is a word drawn from a new lexicon for the anthropocene. It is the feeling of occupying two irreconcilable times simultaneously. Making breakfast for a child, while knowing that in that child’s lifetime a species of flower that has existed for millennia has gone extinct. Driving to try and make work on time it occurs to you that the gas in your engine is the compressed bones of prehistoric creatures. 

‘Shadowtime VR’ takes these temporal incompatibilities and explores them in the realm of virtual reality and simulation theory. To exist in the virtual world is to have two bodies, four hands, two hearts. To exist in two worlds at the same time. Alma, a mysterious guide to this double world, leads you through questions around climate crisis, grief, and the provocation of the virtual as a retreat or shelter, or as a place from which to come to learn how to be in two places, two times, simultaneously. 

Screened at:
Venice Film Festival 2023
Eye Museum – 2023
Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2023
Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF) 2023
SXSW (South by Southwest) 2024
Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt International 2024
Beijing International Film Festival 2024
Beldocs (Belgrade International Documentary Film Festival) 2024
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2024
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) 2024
Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) 2024
Netherlands Film Festival 2024
Kaohsiung Film Festival 2024
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival 2024
ART*VR 2024
Felix Meritis Amsterdam “The Known/The Strange” 2024
Stereopsia Festival 2024
Istanbul Modern 2026​​​​​​​