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      Hold On To Me (2026)

      Single-channel film
      Duration: 10 minutes

      *Screening Soon*      Hold On To Me traces the inner landscape of a new father as he confronts the weight of becoming responsible for another life. Filmed at a threshold between past and future, the work lingers in the quiet moments where fear, memory, and love converge.

      What began as a simple storyboard for a larger production gradually evolved into the film itself. Through a montage of fragmented glimpses of childhood, flashes of unresolved histories, and imagined futures, the piece examines how the past impresses itself upon the present, and how the desire to “do better” can both haunt and anchor a new parent.

      The film meditates on the fragile hope that a child, held with presence and emotional availability, might inherit a different kind of life: one not shaped by inherited trauma but supported by care, attention, and renewed possibility. Hold On To Me becomes not just a portrait of fatherhood, but an attempt to redraw the system of love, responsibility, and protection from the inside out.

      At a technological and professional crux in industrial history, Hold On To Me uses a mixture of photographic, film, simulated and constructed moving-image work to execute an expansive and emotive excavation of meaning.