Compliance / moving image / 14:40 / 2020

"It shocked you to learn how much you wanted to comply, how that tight small town made mincemeat of you. It trod heavily, creaking under the weight of tell-tales, bosses and gods, little enforcers with a creaking mangle for a grip – your fancy static, nullified, like pansies in a flower press."

Compliance is a poetic examination of how trauma reverberates through the years. 

Thank you to Aino, Elisa, Mia and Shia for feedback on versions of this work.

Shown at Forumbox, Helsinki, Otherness Archive x QueerCircle, London, Queer City Cinema, Regina and Video Poetry Festival, Athens. 

Prose version published in Astra, June 2021