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Synopsis: The Snow to Fall (2024) bears witness to the obscure contours of a heritage site undergoing maintenance. Two voices, whose presence is known through subtitles at the two ends of the screen, discuss in an exhaustive language the interiors of the room, the story of a boulder encountered in a mountain house, and the dust that keeps coming back. They hold on to the conversation to survive the time, but the time does not end. Through a sustained gaze at the often invisible labour of care in memory institutions, the film explores the unruly temporality of care, the elusive shapes of kinship, and what remains of those that fail to become history.
Artist Bio: Else/Xun is a researcher and artist who works primarily with moving image and creative-critical writing. Inhabiting chronic times, their practice-based research investigates the politics and potentials of care in the systematic carelessness of neoliberal societies. They fabulate dialogues that attend to the functioning of language and power relations, telling stories to trace alternative modes of belonging and becoming centred around interdependency, care, and radical kinship. Recent exhibitions and screenings include East Wing Biennial (The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 2025), European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück, 2025), and Sonic Disruption (Tate Modern, London, 2024). @xun_elsewhere /// https://elsexun.info
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Synopsis: The Snow to Fall (2024) bears witness to the obscure contours of a heritage site undergoing maintenance. Two voices, whose presence is known through subtitles at the two ends of the screen, discuss in an exhaustive language the interiors of the room, the story of a boulder encountered in a mountain house, and the dust that keeps coming back. They hold on to the conversation to survive the time, but the time does not end. Through a sustained gaze at the often invisible labour of care in memory institutions, the film explores the unruly temporality of care, the elusive shapes of kinship, and what remains of those that fail to become history.
Artist Bio: Else/Xun is a researcher and artist who works primarily with moving image and creative-critical writing. Inhabiting chronic times, their practice-based research investigates the politics and potentials of care in the systematic carelessness of neoliberal societies. They fabulate dialogues that attend to the functioning of language and power relations, telling stories to trace alternative modes of belonging and becoming centred around interdependency, care, and radical kinship. Recent exhibitions and screenings include East Wing Biennial (The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 2025), European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück, 2025), and Sonic Disruption (Tate Modern, London, 2024). @xun_elsewhere /// https://elsexun.info
Online Premiere
