Filmmaker Statement

"exorcisms and other supplications" (2020) occurs within the "Patron Saint" (2019) universe, but imbued with new aesthetic challenges: positive space and the inequality that accompa- nies the historic concept of “utopia.” Using Le Corbusier’s Radiant City as a microcosm for the inequity that accompanies utopian principles of design, the film places Jamall Osterholm’s garments as a futurist and ethnogothic answer to historically flawed elysian strategies. "exorcisms and other supplications" employs the backdrop of religiosity (possession and exorcism) to advance a conversation around race and gender. The design of the film mirrors that of Le Corbusier’s work within ecclesiastical space, specifically the Ronchamp Chapel. Mirroring a national conflation of secular and religious spaces and the racist and colonial underpinnings of Christian nationalism, exorcisms is an aesthetic and experimental crisis of faith around national monolithic governing structures.