THE WIDOW
EVA DEPOORTER
2019
: BIOGRAPHY
Eva Depoorter is a Belgian video artist who lives and works in New York. Her videos are provocative and visceral vignettes that stimulate the viewer to surrender to what (s)he is exposed to.
As a buffer against complete subjection, Eva offers an alternative to reality and invites the audience to roam the absurdist fantasy land she inhabits.
The Widow is Depoorter's second short film.
SYONPSIS:
The dead -like grains of sand, they fleet.
But water them, and they shall rise -pale bodies adrift.
‘The Widow’ is a visual feast of raw emotions, too delicate to be revealed, too urgent to be hidden.
While faint dialogues transform into perished sexuality, barren reality stifles irrefutable desires -a foolish reverie of what is not.
From a grave that is yet to be dug, inaudible whispers emerge -her parched lips, ready to burst.
As the widow surrenders to the blackened sea, we cannot but partake... our hands comfortably tied.