Never Eat Alone
Sofia Bohdanowicz, Canada, 2016, 68 min, DCP, colour, English
Veslemøy’s Song
Sofia Bohdanowicz, Canada, 2018, 9 min, DCP, B&W, English
Roy Thomson
Sofia Bohdanowicz, Canadá, 2018, 3 min, DCP, sepia, English
In 2016 filmmaker Sofía Bohdanowicz and actress and writer Deragh Campbell created the character of Audrey Benac, an archive detective. Made from autobiographical fragments of both of their lives, snippets of family stories and collective invention, Audrey investigates little moments of history that have been forgotten. In Never Eat Alone she explores the past of her grandmother, a former actress and singer, and an ex-suitor with whom she starred in a famous television music programme. Veslemøy's Song seeks out the footprints of Kathleen Parlow, a famous violinist at the time of Glenn Gould and the first woman to study at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, but today completely forgotten. Roy Thomson recalls her grandfather, a former student of Parlow's and a member of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and the presence of the dead in the spaces in which they lived and worked.
