the first work you must do is with yourself (2024)

Created and perfromed at the EYE Filmmuseum Amsterdam as an opening to the screening of Quei loro incontri by Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub.

The text, meant to be performed as a monologue, is a manifesto-statement-word of warning compiled from years of ingesting interviews, writings and films by Huillet-Straub on the structures of despair of the present world as they exist in the practice and industry of cinema.