http://www.vimeo.com/12659920 http://www.vimeo.com/36159297

An excerpt of slide rotation, there are 80 slides of interview transcripts, the cycle takes about 20 minutes to complete.

Hereafter plays with gallery-space conventions vis-à-vis narrative construction, in its presentation of a controlled 35mm image, hanging in the air, whose key “narrative action” – the preparation of a dead body for burial — takes place just below the frame. However, Hereafter also extended my practice into a more narratively complex realm, in its use of projected slides of text on the opposite wall. These slides are interviews with workers whose occupations brought them into close contact with dying people; their stories of dying individuals dared the viewer to connect them to the image on the opposite wall. However, the fact that viewers could only see one projection at once – story or image, not both – meant that there was always a subtle disconnect, a carefully planned rift which prevented the viewer from making an easy reconciliation between text and image, and from making an easy judgement as to what was truth (reality/document) and what was fiction (cinema/illusion).