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SYNOPSIS

When the pandemic first closed the world down, I was secretly relieved.  Thankful for the change in what had become my predictable, monotonous routine of daily life.  Obviously I wasn’t alone, as evidenced by the ‘great resignation’.  So, during the autumn of 2020, while I was teaching online, I answered a friend’s desperate plea to take care of her farm in rural Wisconsin.  She was needed at her sick husband’s bedside at a hospital in Iowa.  Escaping my small oppressive apartment in Humboldt Park, I spent the next months on that farm, together with four cats, Fernando the mule, and two ageless ponies - Pebbles and Wilma. 

 

Not unlike Henry David Thoreau’s transcendental journey of social emancipation in Walden, my withdrawal from the city gave me a distant vantage point from which to view the effects of the Corona Virus as a social experiment.  One which has already had profound influences on the future of human society. 

This film was supported by a residency at the Roger Brown House & Studio in New Buffalo, MI, administered by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 

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Textures of Solitude

[and other stories of life with Ponies]

A memoir  of modern solitude on 16mm film, 10 minutes, 2024

by Danièle Wilmouth

CREDITS

Music

Color Correction & Post-production Assistance

Telephone Voices

Still Photos

Yunju You

Claudia Ardiles & Irina Bucan

Jerzy Rose

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SPECIAL THANKS

Cynthia Ashby, Mark Jeffery, Jerzy Rose & Joseph Ravens 

Photos by Jerzy Rose      │       Webpage Design by Yunju You​

Copyright 2024  Danièle Wilmouth.   All Right Reserved 

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