Mike Cartmell

My work as a filmmaker is pitched on a terrain demarcated by history (personal and communal), sexuality, and language. Uncertainties surrounding my own origin due to foundlinghood and adoption led to a fascination with ancestry, genealogy, and descent. My filmmaking is concerned with the issue of its/my parentage, and often finds itself up against the problematic of origin/originality: this has much to do with the modes of adaptation I’ve investigated in some of my films, and with the ongoing …