Bec Miriam

Robin is a painter, and Alex has a knack for video archiving their life together. With Alex filming Robin constantly, their shared joke about being a "dead movie wife montage" soon turns devastating when Alex must grieve Robin's passing with only her digital memories. Her only guide through this is one of Robin's talking paintings.

How to Care for Strangers follows two disaffected teenagers on the brink of adulthood who enter a surreal childhood fantasyland of joyful indulgence and comfort only to find the satisfaction they longed for in the company of one another.

Carry me in, a non-narrative 16mm personal essay film, tracks the filmmaker's connection with insects - from her childhood fascination to her development of late-stage Lyme Disease as a young adult.