what does the darkness do? / Expanded Access

Approaching accessibility as an act of connection, love, and noticing. Using cyanotype animation of the filmmaker’s mouth speaking directly to audience, handwritten captions, and abstract direct animation on 16mm created with dillweed, salt, and eco-developer, this handmade film forms a personal and sensory connection between filmmaker, audience, and plants, while expanding the practice of audio describing [AD] to include and bring forward the impacts which circumstance, imagination, and varying bodily states have on creating unique, subjective film experiences beyond the control of a filmmaker or access artist.

paper and 16mm>4K, 2026, 02:44