Witness (2019)
Distribution/sales: Mouvement Perpétuel
Created over five-years, Witness is a personal essay that offers an in situ and collective experience through a constellation of point of views in the presence of an installation narrative. In the dissembling, rearranging of memory, reorganizing and understanding of reality, Witness examines the emotional and spatial connections we observe between moments and movements of stability and instability in witnessing the onset of dementia of someone close to us. In the quiet rupture of space that lives and breathes in between, lies beauty and meaning amidst anxiety and fearfulness. Witness reflects on the shifting of one’s relationships, and the new narratives that are being created. To Witness is not one-directional.
Written and Directed by: Marlene Millar
Camera and Editing: Jules de Niverville, Marlene MIllar
Performance: Carol Prieur
Sound design: Luc Papineau
Creative producer: Kathy Sperberg
Installation consultant: Philip Szporer
Choreographic consultant: Tony Chong
Music for Trailer: Dino Giancola & Charmaine LeBlanc
Created with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts
Commissioned work: Threshold artspace and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Exhibition: Featured in Marlene Millar Solo Exhibition, Threshold artspace June 29-Nov 29, 2019 (Perth, UK)