Filmmaker Statement

The challenge of expressing the first encounter with old age in a minimalist way intrigued me: What is to accept when we finally become “old”? Considering the crutches, what is to accept an extension of us as part of us so we can go on living? I desired to explore these questions in a new way: through the relationship with this inanimate object embodied by Julia’s crutches, I wanted to inspect this very angry silent rejection born against it, but also the sense of shame to even disclose this feeling with another person, even if dear to us. To give an object, the crutches, such a human and terrible presence in someone’s life, felt then complex and transversal to human experience in its simplicity.