Short Film TAU at the Walthamstow International Film Festival
TAU is a one-minute direct animation created by working directly onto 16mm clear leader using permanent markers, photographic spot-pen, nail polish, clear tape, Letraset, coloured gel filters, fragments of photographic slides, and drops of blood. I scratch and puncture and lick, emboss and stretch the film, layering and altering its surface frame by frame.
The work emerges from three years of research, including a residency at NIHA (Norwich Institute of Healthy Ageing) exploring hormonal decline, Alzheimer’s disease, and MRI imaging— how the body becomes data, a translation of flesh into code and neurones into gray-scale scans.
Tau is a protein that normally helps keep neurones stable, In several neurodegenerative diseases, Tau becomes harmful when it malfunctions in diseases like Alzheimer’s.