CAPSULE
Shereen Soliman
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Essay Canada 2010 English 0:05:28
Time is relentless. I'm worried, watching a puddle of water invisibly
evaporate before my eyes, asking myself what will remain as I deal with the fallout of an ancestry that is slowly, mercilessly vanishing from this earth. I miss their bodily presence but that's not the only sorrow I feel. I grieve the loss of guided wisdoms, collective histories and the stories I was never told.
Filmed over a period of two months in late 2008 as I
helplessly watched my mother lose her battle with cancer, the single channel video Capsule is a personal journey as well as an urgent
inventory of the precious, final moments I wished to collect and
suspend in time. Past blends with present as bedtime stories,
children's toys and old photographs attempt to counter the distressing reality of syringes, bandages, get-well cards, and the last birthday we
elebrated together as a family.