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Original Film Title: Say You Are My Lover Again
Director’s Name: Cate Kileva
Writer’s Name: Cate Kileva
Producer: Cate Kileva
Country of Origin: Australia
Country of Filming: Australia
Language: English
Runtime: 4 minutes 6 seconds
Film Description:
Getting music out there in amongst the noise is hard. I always try to reflect and hope I’m not adding to the noise, but perhaps creating a little haven of peace within it.
So I made this clip and I feel it lives in the space between texture and feeling, digital and analog, where memory can become performance and every moment is an echo of the one before. Shot alone in the woods, it explores the tension between the artifice of cinema and the rawness of sensation: a body in motion, a camera bearing witness, and the flickering border between the real and the imagined.
I blended archival fragments with original footage and overlays of recorded screen, and the piece plays with time, light, and emotional as well as layers of visual saturation. It is a meditation on desire, nature, and the ways film can blend with song, both as material and as metaphor, to hold what we can’t always say.