Cut Glass (work-in-progress)
Working Title: Cut Glass
Synopsis/Treatment:
Cut Glass is an essayistic documentary that examines the intersection of grief, material culture, and shifting systems of value in contemporary American life. The project originates in personal experience and moves outward from that private loss to investigate the broader cultural logics that govern what we keep, what we discard, and what endures despite pressures toward obsolescence and erasure. The film traces the residues of love, labor, and care that persist in material form, asking how objects, sites, and substances register loss and, in so doing, resist the linear logic of disposal. Part essay film and part elegy, Cut Glass proceeds from the premise that grief and material culture share a common grammar, one concerned with duration, attachment, and the problem of what remains.
Support From:
Science New Wave Grant https://www.labocine.com/films/everything-must-go
Brico Fund Grant through Milwaukee Film