AND I THOUGHT OF HOME
(2024)dir. LILLY ZHUANG
[Realised in collaboration with Simisolaoluwa Akande (The Archive: Queer Nigerians, 2023), Mariana Dongo-Soria Salas, Mat/ilda Gowling, Théa Nasrallah, Varsha Panikar (Bodies of Desire, 2021)]
*VIEWING LINK (PW: LZHUANG2024)
AND I THOUGHT OF HOME is an experimental project centred on the notion of chance and contingency as five creatives, strangers to each other, are put into conversation through their multimedia work, addressing feelings of loss, longing, nostalgia, and frustration to document the liminal place of home at the interstices of sociopolitics and personal poetics.
Weaving a thought through flighty utterances, AND I THOUGHT OF HOME explores fragmented filmmaking, queer kinship, and (dis)connection; an act of first-person plural narration.
Speaking from Beirut, Lima, London, and Mumbai, the disparate voices of the film’s women, queer, and non-binary collaborators are interwoven in an attempt to rethink the concept of identity through a deconstruction of 'home' in fragments, collectively:
"A letter to a city in pieces for a voice on the other side of the phone that echoes in a song sung for a mother tracing the timber of a line of fragmented light; shimmering, flowering, shifting over the course of a day spent thinking."