‘swansong’ is a film about saying goodbye. It is a series of conversations, portraits of feeling, and excerpts of thoughts shared between close friends. It is a meditation on the differences between talking and touching. An intimate bond between two people and the fears of losing that friendship; losing the opportunity to be truly vulnerable with another. The work explores the rhythmic qualities of speech and language to inhabit the experience of an internal monologue to the viewer and communicate emotion at a subconscious level.

‘swansong’ sits somewhere liminally between buddy film and diary film, inhabiting the aesthetics of diary filmmaking as a means of discussing the inherent performance of self the medium mandates.