Catherine or 1786

“Catherine or 1786” is a video installation that focuses specifically on the passage of Catherine Hickling in Furnas, where she remained between 19 May and 29 September 1786. It’s a free interpretation of a daily record, a state and a cloudy, melancholic place, in which nature, boredom, but also mystery and torpor are crossed as lines of an uncertain and inconclusive narrative.
The construction of the text that serves as the basis for the film's premise: Catherine's phrases become motivations for wandering in the representation, photography, action and sound design. But they also become disturbing elements of the filmed temporality itself: what are the times of this narrative and what dialogues do they keep with each other? Which Catherine is?