A bedtime story for the chronically aging. — In “Even the Sun Practices Time” I am exploring the creative possibilities and limitations of misunderstanding, as well as ways of communicating with the empirically absent, divine or earthly. I bring together multiple found footage sources to listen across purposes, forming a kind of speculative listening. My hope is that the film becomes a kind of third space that allows me to access a place outside of forgiveness and condemnation. Found footage gives me a collaborator. I am working with this footage not to decontextualize it, or detourn it, but to have these sources speak to each other (and me) within the film. To acknowledge that the Sun practices time is to acknowledge that no one escapes the burdens of time. But a burden is also a possibility. It is a dry reckoning with the fact that the only promise of time is that it exists.
