To Live (2013)

Adapted from the novel Bid Me To Live by the poet HD written 193350 published 1960 and shot in houses occupied by military families on Governors Island NYC from the 1770s to the 1960s To Live is about what happens on the fringes of a war and the extremes and estrangements that war produceshow dancing on the laststraw edge of everything makes us strangers not only to each other but also to ourselves It is propelled by a text that spirals through a perpetual state of siege suspension and postponement marking the inroads that the state makes on our ability to love and to live