Winter film program
Chris Andrews
Montréal
Carmen-Sibha Keiso & Alli Melanson
14.1.2026 - 25.1.2026
In One Foot in Front of the Other, 2024-2026, Alli Melanson revisits material taken during her time walking the Camino de Santiago. The footage was taken about halfway through the walk in a hostel lounge area with couches where guests would gather, where she quietly documents two people – one trying to relieve the pain of the other from injuries incurred while walking. They appear to be strangers, their timid conversation playing out across subtitles, as they negotiate with one another asking more or less, "does this hurt?". Melanson’s somewhat voyeuristic position is partially eclipsed by a pair of feet that do their own kind of dance, progressively relaxing into sleep. The videos are refilmed with a phone camera horizontally, creating another layer of removal and duplicating her point-of-view, this time from inside her bedroom a year and a half later.
Text by Chris Andrews
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One Foot in Front of the Other. Digital video. 16:07 min.2024-2026.