i am a resting river/ich bin ein ruhender fluss (2025)

film on screen, 74 min 45 sec




caring for myself is an act of political warfare/the need to feed myself/the joy of living as an act of resistance/survival is a political action*we need to join forces and for that, we need to bring our personal to the outside world/shake it/the personal is theoretical is political**i don’t believe in self-sacrifice for the sake of political work/i am a strong believer that either your politics is liberating and that gives you joy, or there is something wrong with them***i can’t****i rest/it might be symptomatic/it might be political/my body is a container is an archive and i try my best to trust/and i try/my muscles my flesh my bones/from now on, i swear/pleasure, recovery, healing, love, love,love (from now on, i x)



*Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light, 1988
**Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life, 2017
***Silvia Federici, Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times, 2017
****Jan Verwoert, Exhaustion and Exuberance: Ways to Defy the Pressure to Perform, 2008