Life Eternal (2022)
Canada, The Netherlands | 2022 | DCP or 3-channel installation | Colour | Fiction | 23' | English
Life eternal is available as a 3-channel film installation or single screen film
Life Eternal tells three intertwining stories about immortality. The first story is about Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon and his legendary search for the Fountain of Youth. The second tells us of Henrietta Lacks, a poor black tobacco farmer whose cancer cells were used to create the first immortal human cell line. The final story takes up James Bedford, the first person to undergo cryogenic freezing in hope of future revival.
Moving across centuries, these three historical characters enter into a timeless conversation with each other on their last few days of life. At the same time, Life Eternal touches upon the complex and troubling historical themes that jump out so vividly from their stories - colonialism, exploitation, and techno-utopianism. This work is a poetic dialogue on the eternal conversation on time and our attitude toward it.
Installation Exhibitions
2024 Proyector, Madrid, Spain
2022 39th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany
2022 Prospects, Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Awards
Hertzog da Silva Acquisition Award, Proyector, 2024
