The Glow of Rumination, 2025
Video HD (color/no sound), 03:47 (loop)
Variable Dimensions
The Glow of Rumination is a short film that meditates on the cyclical nature of memory and loss. In grief, we often return to the same memories—not to see them more clearly, but to maintain a sense of connection to what’s no longer here. This repetition, while comforting, can also become involuntary and sometimes even compulsive, echoing the looping thought patterns seen in anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
The film gives visual form to that impulse: a bright, glowing light drifts across the frame, repeating again and again. With each loop, the image becomes increasingly distorted and abstract, mirroring the neurological truth that the more we revisit a memory, the more it frays.
In its repetition and gradual distortion, the film reflects how memory warps and transforms with each recollection, revealing how our perceptions of the past shift over time. It proposes the question of how memories persist not as fixed truths, but as unstable forms that change as we revisit them. In this way, The Glow of Rumination offers a reflection on how remembering is less an act of preservation than one of erosion—and how loss lives in that tension.