Ghostnote

4K UHD Monochannel video, stereo sound, 14:04

Ghostnote is a speculative short fiction, unfolding within the quiet, uncanny routines of a support call center employee. Constrained between her home-office, the view to other apartment buildings and her screens, a young woman works the nightshift. Calls come in about a recurring event, but her answers never reveal what happened, rather that something did, repeatedly, over the last days. In between calls, she sends voicememos to her friend, thoughts on who she should become drift between her professional persona and her private self, a billboard dangles dreams before her hungry eyes.

Through these different lines of narration - inspired by office manuals, call-center scripts and testimonies from the artist’s friends - Ghostnote reveals the multiple selves, and the doubts that accompany them, adopted by the young woman. The sleek images, modeled after advertisements, slowly glide from reality into a blend of dreamlike stills, closing up on mundane objects that appear magical, screens that impose concentration and the outside world showing signs of life far out of reach.