INKA DEALS WITH COUNTING
Short Film
In the early weeks of the Covid pandemic, my daughter was learning to count in Spanish. I really felt like shooting something and making something together, and she let me do this.
This film feels like a hazy glimpse into multiple times. My daughter is getting bigger all the time, and even though I still cut her fringe (bangs), she probably wouldn’t let me dress her in that cute polka dot jumpsuit. And she can count to at least a million, she says.
It’s also a transportation to the early days of the pandemic in Los Angeles, when everything was locked down, we weren’t allowed to leave the country and we spent all our time fumbling for a sense of structure to our lives. I made lots of things out of cardboard for Inka (my proudest being a cardboard Leica camera), watched a lot of films at night and wondered if I would ever get the chance to travel again.