my grief grows unapologetic
14:50min, 2025 (experimental film)
drawings: sofia bempeza
music/sound collages: fine freiberg
editing/post production: fine freiberg
The animation is made of drawings and poetry particles that are composed in a vibrant dark-lighted collage. It engages with love, deviant sexualities and kinky sex practices connected to loss and grief. Bodily autonomy goes along with situations of vulnerability, inherited trauma(s) and the attempts to cut through im/possible desires and phantasies. The script refers to an impasse, a situation of disagreement and a condition of temporarily paralysis. Physical exhaustion and queer desires are mixed with liquid memories and somatic geographies. My gland is my land. My Grief Grows Unapologetic also contains quotes of the poem "Revolution" by the unknown female poet Nishi Junko (Japan). Junko, in our interpretation, acknowledges the situation of bringing to a standstill, of accepting the loss of (romantic) love songs, or terminating a love contract.
The film is a collaboration between Sofia Bempeza (visual artist, poet) and Fine Freiberg (visual artist, experimental film maker).
Premiere at SEXY SOLIDARITIES - Bodily Autonomy, Trauma and Protest, Exhibition at Semperdepot, Porn Film Festival Vienna 2025