Using a monoprint printmaking technique to recreate archival footage, Sideweighs and Backwords forefronts the imperfect action of memory. In opposition to the immaculate reproduction of traditional print and digital media, human memory is exposed as a verb – a constant recreation of a sequence of events, a story we tell ourselves. The story told here is a movement between homeland and a new home, a constant traversing of terrain and terms.

Making this journey is an ill body, in splendour and dishevel. It is a body that places both language and narrative at stake. Displaced and mismatched text, accompanied by sound mirroring disordered thinking, means that access to the film is not easily negotiated. Ultimately, Sideweighs and Backwords offers a series of choices to its audiences, and invites them to decide how it is experienced.