temporal assemblages is an ecological video poem exploring human presence and absence in natural and built environments. Although the performers in the film are directed within the frame, the locations serve as canvasses for improvisation and the landscape is an equal player in the narrative of the scene. A meditation on impermanence and the transience of place, the title is inspired by assemblage art where fragments of existing artistic objects are reconstituted into new artworks. The filmmaker here samples her own archive of media materials produced over several decades of practice, from analogue photography, Super-8mm and 16mm film recordings, early video and sound, mixing obsolete technologies with new recordings. Fragments of spoken word poetry mix with scientific nomenclature in onscreen text, embedding ecological histories with the material constituents of the scene. An earlier version of the prologue, Entering the Lake, was published in 2017 as video poetry in The Goose, an online publication of the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada.
