A folk music band plays a funeral march at the edge of a cliff, aiming the music at the precipice and dedicating their act to the vast emptiness.The video is an analogy for the coming of age period in which we eliminate the image of the parent, in Freudian terms, in order to reach adulthood. The title refers to this figurative patricide, using a more poetic approach as a rite of passage.

Shown below, the film installed at the exhibition “New Songs for Old Cities”, curated by Daniella Geo and Pieternel Vermoortel at Netwerk Aalst, 2021. Images by Dani Gherca