Revisiting Loss of Heat through Intergenerational Collaboration

In this conversation, Noski Deville and Nicola Singh reflect on their recent collaboration to craft a contemporary response to Deville’s film Loss of Heat (1994). They describe their working processes and how they created new artworks that respond to the restoration, preservation, and screening of Loss of Heat by Cinenova in 2022. With their interviewer, Beth Bramich, they discuss embodied aspects of film and intergenerational collaboration, and explore the possibilities of combining film with sound art, written and spoken text, and live performance. They consider the political contexts surrounding the release of Loss of Heat in 1994, its screening in 2022, and its depictions of queer love between British South Asian women and of the lived experience of the invisible disability of epilepsy.