Document With No End
Video/Super 8, 10:35min, 2025
This film contends with the impact of environmental collapse on interpersonal relationships, disability, and an “unknown future”. Inspired by Lee Edelman’s “No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive” and Feminist, Queer, Crip author, Alison Kafer’s rebuttal of Edelman’s “Fuck The Future” – this hybrid speculative fiction and personal film nonlinearly moves across past, present, and future timelines. Refusing to erase the disabled body in either timeline, the film instead insists upon making illness visible and posing questions regarding grief, loss, and Queer/Crip time. The filmmaker draws connections to her (and her cat’s) autoimmune disease and the Great Salt Lake, a drying body of water in Salt Lake City, Utah, that has become disabled due to capitalism. Questions are posed regarding the future of the planet, human survival, and the feminist negotiations necessary to stay in relationship despite disease and fear.
