WIP Tender Burial, 16mm film transferred to video 2023 - present

An unknown narrator engages with processes of excavating, burying, making and learning in Tender Burial, a 16-mm film-essay-poem. 

The replication of an artefact leads the protagonist to an ancient headland. Here, she practices fieldworking; the blurring and fracturing of disciplinary (archeological and anthropological) boundaries.

Framed by shots of the landscape, the narrator traces the history of two women, who possibly lived at the same time (around 700BCE) whose remains were excavated in the late 19th and early 20th Century, displaced from their rightful burial grounds and ultimately displayed within museum collections a few miles from one another. Small fragments of their stories are shared and entwined by the narrator, who considers ongoing colonial legacies and questions the politics of replication, extraction, representation and restitution.