Orlando is an experimental video that depicts a wake in the childhood home of two brothers, set along a family poolside in Orlando, Florida. The video presents glimpses of intimate conversations and distant observations, offering a fragmented personal portrait of Orlando that pivots around the outskirts of Cape Canaveral, the Pulse Night Club, and Sunday sermons at a drive-in church. This despondent wandering through a place depicts a shifting social landscape and the identities it shapes. Orlando looks to how the affect of loss is refracted on the surface of water, and how mourning can resemble submersion. It presents a visual vocabulary for family and its absence, and reflects on mass shootings as a symptom of national illness, the extinction of swamp species, roadside wonders, and new beginnings. 

 Orlando, HD Video and Sound, 2018. 13 minutes

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