Synopsis: The Algonquin word “Papashèi” meaning breathing while dreaming; opens the film and is followed by a hand dance in the sky with Wind. Carrying Breath Between Ancestors is an embodied haptic film. It texturally folds and unfolds with images of the coastal Pine Barrens and Wetlands through layered accumulations, decay, and enfoldings to express the interwoven shaping of the land by Wind, moira’s ancestral cosmologies that includes Wind, tactile memories and knowledges, with the tensions between knowing and naming that bonds moira in relationship with Wind, legacies of familial refuge and disabilities connected to the wetlands. The film’s final 3 minutes are intentionally empty of images for Wind and Water to continue their songs; breathing life into dreams and all living things.

Artist Bio: moira williams (they/them) is an interdisciplinary disabled artist, curator, activist, and dreamer of Lenape, Kickapoo, Wyandot, and Sämi descent. Their ongoing co-creativity with land, water and people unsettles ableist and ecological boundaries between bodies by imagining “ecological intimacy” as an expansion of Mia Mingus’s “access intimacy.” moira recently received the Landscape Research Group Fund (UK), United States Artists Disability Futures Fund, Movement Research's Access. Movement. Play (AMP) Residency, Disability + DANCE NYC Social Justice Fellowship, and Emily Hall Tremaine Curatorial Advancement Grant. Their work has been at Tangled Arts + Disability (Toronto), iPark Environmental Biennale (CT), MOCA (LA), ARoS Museum (Denmark), Aurora Picture Show (TX), Articulating Space Research Centre (UK), Flux Factory (NYC), CUE Art Foundation (NYC), MoMA PS1 (NYC).

Video and sound editing juliet louise johnson.

Film and field recording, video and sound editing, writing moira williams.

Online Premiere