Filmmaker Statement

VIA[DOLO] was filmed during lockdown 2021 in the UK. We feel we've created a unique story within a rather ambiguous and frivolous situation, with some intriguing depth but which hasn't been burdened with any explanation. It's more of an allegory and very much open to interpretation. VIA[DOLO] is not necessarily about a young woman's traumatic journey through a town...I wanted to deliver a somewhat alternative message on human behaviour, reaction and survival. Her way of suffering, with its dream-like hyper-real aesthetic, coupled with various symbolic meanings and layered metaphors, is perhaps the journey of life. From birth to beyond, represented as a surrealistic and absurd situation. It explores confusion and awkwardness, tension and beauty. How life knocks us back, sends us in different directions; we're able to either take hold of our shortcomings, or suffer and succumb to the powers that be. Oh, and the Latin for “Way of Suffering" is Via Dolorosa.