Wallpaper

Wallpaper is a performative documentary in which four generations of women in the artists family attempt to recreate a wallpaper design that was painted by Syeds grandmother when the artist was a child It features Syed her daughter mother and grandmother as well as her sister artistfilmmaker Tanya Syed Documenting the process in video and 16mm film the five women take turns in the films technical roles performer director camera operator thus destabilizing the relationship between filmmaker and filmed subject and the traditional generational hierarchy The result is a selfreflexive and delicately layered film which deals with family memory and subjectivity