Tell Me about SunTea (Super 8, Digital Video, Colour, Stereo Sound, 6 minutes and 47 seconds) Tell Me about SunTea builds a conversational and spatial ecosystem, weaving together the disparate spaces of the Toronto Islands and Covington, Texas. The film considers the life cycles of plants and animals, as discussed by the filmmaker’s Gram and as remembered by the filmmaker. Conversational obstacles and a failed interview attempt are re-imagined as off-road opportunities. The repeated voice over reveals changes in cadence and content that point to the fragile intimacy held in language and storytelling. “Considering different forms of mechanical and organic hearing, the film explores unclear phone connections, remembered conversations, ambient television noise, directional handheld microphone artifacts, and the sonic qualities of water at different temperatures. Moving between the Toronto Islands (visually and aurally), Covington, Texas (remembered aurally), Super 8 film, digital video, and spatial glass distortion, travel is figured as remembering and creation.” – Ben Kiem
