Palimpsests follows Rita, a young woman who, after receiving a job rejection, enters an almost empty auditorium and encounters Elise, a 45-year-old woman who seems uncannily close to her future self. Through suspended time, residual space, layered voices, and minimal dialogue, the film explores impasse, female becoming, and a diminished form of resilience.
Corynn Tang's film stages an encounter between a 20-year-old woman and her 45-year-old self, both existing within the same present moment. By collapsing temporal distance and co-locating two versions of the self, the work rejects linear time and draws on the "cone of the past" to question how perceived clarity is constructed retrospectively.
