SUBTLE STRUCTURES combines performative, relational exchanges before the camera to produce this documentary influenced video. Having compiled ten audio interviews with Concordia video students and department staff on the subject of family, the resulting aural montage accompanies this visual landscape: a repeated struggle to build a house of cards. By attempting to depict the challenges of sustaining a 'subtle structure' through the overlapping of myriad stories and the patient struggle to build, I wish to create a kind of palpable and almost savoury tension, while proposing a state of refined patience and (self) compassion in the listening and in the doing - one that simultaneously fills the viewer with anticipation, curiosity, trepidation, and hope.
		A-287 SUBTLE STRUCTURES Victoria Stanton Essay, Quebec, 2008, 10 min 46 s, colour, English