Donnacha Dennehy's The Hunger explores the emotional, political, and socioeconomic devastation of Ireland’s Great Famine. In Irish folklore, a "Fairy Tree" is a gateway between worlds for mortals and the other world.

The tree in The Hunger's original record art was a perfect image to summon and recall the separation of a child from its mother and its roots. The video describes the experience of distancing and fraying a familial and spiritual bond. The text documenting the Great Famine has so many parallels to the immigration issues of today, and it was crucial to me to connect the two. This connection reveals itself across similar visual cartography towards the end, drawing the viewer from the suffering of the past into our shameful present.

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Process:
Photography, Cinema4D, Houdini, TouchDesigner, OpenFrameworks, After Effects, Dust, Oils, Water