In Closure

In Closure
Maryna Makarenko
‘In Closure’ is a short documentary essay film about how being isolated due to the Covid-19 pandemic changed the understanding of a body, intimacy and closeness.

During the Two Roots residency I was tested positive with Covid-19 and had to spend the period of the residency in a strict quarantine. I had no access to the outside and had to find available materials to work with inside of my house. During isolation I thought about how the virus changed the way I think and feel my body and other people´s bodies. I invited friends to reflect of these questions in a form of self-recorded interviews and short body portraits. My analog film photo archives became another layer of the work gaining a new meaning in a present context.