Single channel video, 2022
45 minutes
In the spring of 2020, at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. I invited a group of students at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, (where I was teaching at the time) to collaborate in documenting the experience of the pandemic and its social and economic consequences. We turned the camera on ourselves, observing our personal and professional lives, and developed a collaborative dynamic over the course of two years of shooting and editing, helping each other to be vulnerable and honest, struggling with time management, and keeping in touch over the course of the pandemic.
The result was a 45-minute film reflecting on personal and professional stagnation, job loss, familial closeness, precarity, and resilience.
The filmmakers were Tyus Allen, Josie Hayslette, Jules Jackson, Carolyn Lambert, Sabrina Mohler, Maris Souza and myself.