Mother Ghosting
Mother Ghosting, a film triptych by Serena Chopra, explores the energies and pulses of the feminist poetic line through the gendering of sound/speech/song and matrilineal mythologies, observing menstruation as a mother-daughter blood-line that holds the resistance and fury of patriarchally-induced traumas.
The film triptych was created in tandem with Chopra's essay, “Rampage, Wounds and Chthonic Desire: A Mythological Complex for the Feminist Poetic Line,” published in Matters of Feminist Practice: A Journal of Feminist Criticism (Belladonna* Collective, vol. 1, 2020) [Full Chapter PDF].
Mother Ghosting (Serena Chopra, 2018)
Viewing method one
(above)
As a triptych, Mother Ghosting is meant to be viewed as three separate but simultaneous and looped projections that, due to their varying lengths, perform different synchronicities between them, over time. However, viewing method one (above) places all the projections onto a single, three-way split screen for viewing accessibility and convenience. What is lost in this method are the shifting synchronicities that occur between the films.
To experience the synchronicities, scroll down to viewing method two.
Viewing method two
(above)
To experience this viewing method, please simultaneously play the individual films (Mother Ghosting #1, #2, & #3) on three separate browsers/windows or screens/projections. The sound for this viewing method is in Triptych #3.
To experience the shifting synchronicities between the films over time, please play each film on a loop.
