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MARROW OF MY BONES

MARROW OF MY BONES

KARLY MCCLOSKEY | CANADA | 2026 | 2 MIN | ENGLISH

KARLY MCCLOSKEY | CANADA | 2026 | 2 MIN | ENGLISH

IN-CINEMAVIRTUALShortMADE AU CANADA
NOV 27 / 19:00ONF Salle Alanis-Obomsawin NFB Alanis Obomsawin Theatre1500 Rue Balmoral. Montréal, QC H3A 2H7 (métro Place des Arts)

Synopsis

Combining digital effects, frame-by-frame animation and hand-processed 16mm film, this experimental self-portrait explores hybridity, embodiment and otherness. A love letter to queerness and connection, it imagines nature and the body as entangled forces that contaminate and transform one another.

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Filmmaker Bio

Karly McCloskey is a Canadian artist specializing in videography, editing and animation. Combining analogue and digital techniques, she approaches artworks, films and animation as hybrid forms shaped through touch, care and collaboration with materials. McCloskey holds a BFA in Integrated Media and an MFA from OCAD University's Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design program. She has taught classical art, animation, videography and editing, and collaborates with Canadian musicians and filmmakers on animations, music videos, shorts and experimental works.

Director's Statement

Marrow of my Bones engages with hybridity, embodiment, and otherness. Otherness is a monster that embodies all that is outside the normal or standard. When framing nature as other, we are contaminating it with other others. Nature becomes a queer monster. Land is not a passive object; it is a monster that fights back. This film is a love letter to queerness and connection. In this self-portrait, I am embracing my innate entanglement with non-humans. Transformation begins when I recognize the contaminations that make me.

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