Nowhere,
now here

2020
Video, sound
13 minutes, 58 seconds

Using as a starting point Rebecca Solnit’s observations about the egalitarian communities that often form post-disaster, Nowhere, Now Here considers the “disaster utopia” in the context of the coronavirus pandemic, ongoing police brutality protests, and a small Ohio town named Utopia. Combining both documentary and scripted footage, the film explores the limits and possibilities of utopian imagination through personal essay, narrative fiction, and writing by W.H. Auden, Albert Camus, and Susan Sontag.

Funding for this project was generously provided by the Public Narrative Collaborative Global Arts & Humanities Discovery Themes at The Ohio State University.