Mara Mckevitt – Making Of

In her writings Mckevitt renders a series of real and fictional events into a filmic story that outline the production of her film Val. We are led through a sequence of encounters with friends, bosses, tricks, lovers, strangers and co-conspirators who help her end this performance – the successful consummation through making this film. The scenes oscillate from the clinical to the erotic, describing webs of relationships that complicate the flimsy demarcations between sex, labor, and power through the lens of artistic production. While employing the formal conditions of a legal document, Mckevitt deliberately blends the writing styles of bureaucratic scripts with film scripts, love stories and obituaries, consumer reports and job descriptions. The language of futurity and documentation are spliced together, reminiscent of a found footage video. Making Of is the centre piece of a forthcoming collection of stories as well as the genesis of Mckevitt’s next film.

Clementin Seedorf, 2023
Paperback, 64 pages
5.5″ x 7.5″