2006
1 1/4 minutes
clear film leader, red & black ink, nail polish, photocopied text
Red Seeds is a handmade film that originated from two things. The first was a short story called Vermillion. The other was the stories of several women- both real and fictional- whose lives ended in their sleep.
In Vermillion the female protagonist suffers a head injury, but instead of bleeding red seeds fall from her hair and grow into a tree. When the girl grows up the tree envelops her into an eternal sleep.
While working on this several deceased women came to mind, women such as Lizzie Siddal, Edie Sedgwick, and even the fictional Lily Bart. All three had died in bed. All are debated suicides. In the end Red Seeds was an interpretation of what it may have been like for them, paralyzed while scattered thoughts and flickers of light passed before their eyes.
