Set against the backdrop of a fictional blackout, The Burning Candle recalls a series of power cuts during the winter of 1995. Moving between fragments of personal history, literature, and sensory memory, it traces a path through circular time. It returns again and again to the candle’s flame as a fragile thread; a point of departure for memory, imagination, and the layered ways in which we remember.

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Film stills, The Burning Candle, 2025
16mm transferer to video
8 min, colour, stereo sound, CRT, 4:3, loop