'We do not see who looks at us.' — Jacques Derrida, Spectres of Marx (1993)
Seen Into This is a gothic short film and installation examining what the act of looking does to its subject.
A young woman arrives at a party having constructed her own image with care and intention — the Gothic costume deliberate, pleasurable, entirely hers. What follows is not violence or revelation but something quieter: the gradual process by which a woman who authors her own visibility becomes subject to a visibility she did not choose. As the night unfolds, fragments of another figure begin to emerge: a Victorian heroine who appears less as a ghost than as an inevitability.
The installation surrounds the film with objects that carry the work's concerns — veils, a sculptural presence, sound delivered through headphones that place the viewer inside the film's world rather than outside it. To watch is not to be separate from what is being watched.
Seen Into This does not resolve what it raises. It holds it, in the room with you.