Single Channel Video, 11 minutes, 2024
No Matter What (2024, 11 min.) is an essay film that begins with a simple misidentification: the Red-tailed Hawk’s cry, ubiquitous in Hollywood cinema, almost never belongs to the bird on screen. This sonic sleight-of-hand—a substitution so normalized it escapes notice—shapes the film as both subject and formal strategy.
The film weaves personal memory, cultural theory, and ecological observation to examine how media representation shapes and distorts our perceptual relationship to the natural world. No Matter What asks, “What does it mean to mishear the world around us, even as that world grows quieter?”
No Matter What recently premiered at the West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival where it won the “Best Space Theme” Award (in spite of not being about 🪐).
It is currently being considered for a number of film-festivals. Please email me if you would like to preview the video carolynlambert00 at gmail dot com.