an archive of pandemic grief
i run workshops where participants share about their grief connected to the ongoing pandemic and learn about diy filmmaking techniques. after the workshops everyone makes a short film clip to express a part of their grief and i edit them all together. we come back together after one month to screen our collective film. i am creating an archive of the creativity of sick, disabled, immunocompromised and covid aware people who are grieving the culture of forced forgetting that surrounds the covid19 crisis.
Kit’s workshop was so welcoming, not only to all experiences but to all ideas. A really beautiful experience and the collective film outcome is so important, expressing completely underseen perspectives in the most personal way possible.
Participating in this project was such a moving and healing experience. Thank you for creating this space, sharing your craft, and holding our stories! I’ll always remember it.
I loved the whole process! Thank you for facilitating and making the workshop and the art so accessible!
processing pandemic grief together – a collective film – 2026 – hosted by restfest film festival
processing pandemic grief together – a collective film – 2025 – hosted by remote body
processing pandemic grief together – a collective film – 2024 – hosted by restfest film festival
I deeply appreciate your pandemic grief collective filmmaking workshops.
I always wonder why there hasn’t been more public acknowledgement of the pain of the pandemic. More public art about it. There’re no public memorials for the millions dead and disabled that I know of. No shared avenue for recognizing this pain we hold in common. Maybe because it hasn’t ended. Into the seventh year, it’s still rolling through our lives—hindsight and wisdom will come much later, if at all. And maybe it’s now taboo? No one wants to land on the topic for very long. I struggle with that too.
Processing Pandemic Grief via collective filmmaking is medicine for this open wound. An opportunity for making sense of and figuring out how we are managing all the losses the virus has brought to our lives. Creating a bit of coherence for a moment, with others. A hard and sweet interruption to the chronic sorrow.