Wetlands of Our Mother’s Tongues in Concrete
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Wetlands of our Mother’s Tongues in Concrete is an experimental film that explores the notions of transness, motherhood, and healing. The speaker(s) find themselves dispersed between the channels of the ocean and fragments of memory as they dig into their family histories.
Directors Spotlight
Jordan Deal
Director
Jordan Deal, also known as ROSEKILLJUPITER, is a Philadelphia-based multidisciplinary practitioner. Their investigative practice uses performance, sound, and image as a conduit between unseen forces and the materializations of socio-political structures. They have been expanding on the use of storytelling as the accumulation of Black and Indigenous mythologies, collective memory, queer intimacy, and celebration as a generative, subversive and healing material. Through using the interflux of collected field recordings, video/film documenta, and real-time mythological fabrication, Deal explores dialectics, borders and territories; deadundead knowledge; and counter-active channels of potentiality that exists outside of global colonialism and imperialism’s frameworks and mappings.
- Year: 2023
- Runtime: 11 minutes
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Director: Jordan Deal
- Cast: Jordan Deal and Ivonne Perez
- Editor: Jordan Deal
- Sound Design: Jordan Deal
- Premiere: World