THE BEGINNING OF THE WORD HOPE AND BECAUSE IT'S ONLY THE BEGINNING short film 2003

"I wanted to represent a loss, by creating an absence and by exploring the contradiction in this. The film explores the house of my memory. As the female figure walks from empty room to empty room, it exposes the house in the process of lossing all trace of home; abandoned to silence.  I looked to the work 'Nadja' by Andre Breton: to his character's unusual presence in a world that hardly notices her, to Eric Satie's the Gymnopédies: with notes that hang in momentous silence, and worked site specifically within the most familiar building I knew." alys

The Beginning of the word Hope and because it's only the Beginning was originally devised as the first part of a three-part performance with recorded and live dance, presented at The Cochrane Theatre in London in 2003.  It was later made into an independant Short Film and exhibited in this form.

Performed by Sarah Markou.  Duration: 7 minutes.