She Who Passes Through Time meanders and wanders through spaces, motions, characters, objects, voices and times drifting in an out of form. The film takes as its starting point the Strugatsky brothers’ novel Roadside Picnic on which Tarkovskys Stalker is based. The film is organised around the minor character of Monkey – a hairy and mutated little girl, the beloved daughter of the Stalker, working through notions of haunting and the politics of the minor, gender-inflected subject — the one who is absent, the one who mutates, transmigrates. Filmed on location in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, it loosely follows the shooting locations of Stalker as well as the locations of previously closed cities of Soviet Baltics, the film touches on the post-Soviet and post-totalitarian condition through the lens of decolonial thought.
Nicole Hewitt
Nicole Hewitt is a visual artist working in film, video, installation, performance and text. Her work is concerned with memory, history and gendered narratives as mediated through technologies of representation and preservation. She has recently completed the long-term episodic series of performance/texts ‘This woman is called Jasna’ (2013-2021), her project Women Minor Speculations (2015-2021) continued research into the histories of South East Europe and forms of story-telling and she is currently developing a new long term project She Who Passes Through Time, Zones 1-3.
