Ashes to ashes (Canada, 2025)
16mm film
b&w & colour, sound

Ashes to Ashes depicts fragments of the artist’s diary as they undergo physical and emotional transformation through a blazing agricultural landscape. Words turn to ash as the past is consumed by flames. Rivers ignite from embers, flow through vessels, and begin to crack. Manifested through the land and material processes lies a situated reflection on recovery, loss, and evolution.

The film was shot at the 2024 Independent Imaging Retreat. It was developed in Common Comfrey and contaminated wood ash foraged from the farm, and coated with the artist’s blood.

Sound by Taliesin Mason-McCrea

Digital Master by Julian Stark
Analogue Master by Ellis Sam

Available screening formats: 16mm and digital



Screenings:
2026 - Wide Open Experimental Film Festival — Program 4: Creation Plays Itself (Oklahoma City, OK)
2026 - Artifact Film Festival — Projected Program (Calgary, AB)
2026 - Film Diary 4 — all night long in the orchard, my eyes like two dogs (Brooklyn, NYC)
2025 - CROSSROADS — program 5: shadows between the frame
(San Francisco, CA)

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