B and S
Synopsis
A personal essayistic documentary that explores the beauty and depths of friendship between B and S. While going through corridors of loneliness, as they struggle with their immediate world that refuses to see them for who they are, friendship becomes the idea of home and family, where the deepest connections and belongingness are found. The filmmaker introduces this tender friendship to her late grandaunt through imaginary conversations that carry in them fragments of shared love and longings, drawing intimate connections between human and non-human worlds.
Director's Note
In the landscape of collective loss, violence, and grief, how does one make sense of a day or of life? The imaginary conversations with my late grandaunt have become my safe space. There is an urgency within me to talk about love, friendship, and the things we hold on to, now more than ever. When nothing could caress my tired self, the tenderness of B and S's friendship reassured the magical presence of love. I felt the need to record this intimate feeling of belongingness, which even transcended their transness. And I felt that before I lose its sense and nuance to the fleeting world around me, I must capture and keep it close to me with utmost care in my personal letter to my late grandaunt—a film essay that it is. Having multiple layers of images to be seen as one, it further stretches its interior of the non-human world through my dear friends—the parrot, the tree, and the sea.