Unfortunately, It Was Paradise

Conceived in response to shared experiences of physical distancing, the film screening maps itself onto the dynamic and shifting nature of place as a landscape impacted by circumstance. The current era of imposed isolation has ushered in a seismic disruption to the communal structures of daily life. Freedoms of movement and communal living have been fundamentally redefined in the wake of uncertain futures. New relational topographies of immobility and social distance are now shared globally. To live within the present day requires a conscious consideration of place as co-created with and between others.

Unfortunately, It Was Paradise positions place-making as a collaborative yet unstable process measured against experiences of exile, social upheaval, and political rupture. The films trace elusive narratives of home and belonging grounded in broad questions unease and catharsis.