Film and the Practice of Social Dreaming

I was asked by the Estonian Academy of Arts to present an artist's talk on my work, and the processes of making, and the various collaborative aspects entailed in working in film, outside of mainstream production streams. Through my work I ask how we might resist being framed exclusively through class, gender, ability or disability, and even through geography… I outlined my working process, spanning over a decade, which contributes attention to the under-expressed intersection of public and private memory and itinerant lives, human and otherwise, often in relation to structural and political violence. Processes where radical encounters call for uncommon commons and futures, using filmmaking practice as a form of social dreaming.