icarus digital video/ 10:47 / 2022




In this video, I asked my parents to each read aloud my short written piece, Icarus, which imagines the last day of my sister’s life. Icarus is is a study in empathy: It explores ideas of repetition, performance as it relates to grief, and normalizing the so-called shameful feelings that are triggered by trauma.

*video available upon request

© camilla gale / photo credits: jan rattia & federico savini