What You Love Too Much To Lose, 2021
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images from workshop at Gasworks, London for Between The  Blue, 2022

Grief gives no fucks about linear time or capitalist notions of productivity, corporate wellness or respectability and for that we admire her. It comes when we lose something, when we miss each other, when we lack or yearn for connection. Grief recognises that something is missing. We can grieve things that never have been and we can grieve things that haven’t happened yet or might never happen. We can grieve parts of ourselves. Acknowledging the absence of something we need is healthy. The fact that we have no space to do so is not.

We know that the climate crisis is disproportionately affecting disabled and BIPOC communities around the world. Some of us watch on as our ancestral lands are sinking, as our people face yet more displacement and violence. We want to run but no-where is safe from colonialism or white supremacy driven environmental destruction.

Many of us are learning to live with ecological anxiety (apprehension and stress about potential threats to our environment) and ecological grief (pain, sadness or suffering we can feel due to the loss of our ecosystems) but are pathologized and dismissed when we express anguish. It’s a scam!

By weaving personal and found footage and sound to create this surreal collage, the film allows intergenerational voices on Climate Justice, the mania of early 00s shark films and the quiet peace of a beautiful day to co-exist. All the while leaving you wondering… what do I love too much to lose?


WYLTMTL has screened at:

FILM LONDON for Selected 13, between 14 - 29 November 2023 at venues across the UK including CCA Glasgow, Fabrica (Brighton), Royal College of Art (London), Nottingham Contemporary, and John Hansard Gallery (Southampton).

Gasworks  for Between The Deep Blue, May 2022

Arts Admin for HOW TO SURVIVE THE END OF THE WORLD, September 2021