This Part I Carry

'This Part I Carry' is an extended field of poetic thought, movement, and sound that traces a relationship of kinship between the unraveling body and the cycle of bereavement, isolation, and regeneration.

  • Gaelyn Aguilar
    Director
    Ah, Raza!: The Making of an American Artist; Absence of Answers; The Turn Around
  • Gustavo Aguilar
    Director
    Ah, Raza!: The Making of an American Artist; Absence of Answers; The Turn Around
  • Gaelyn Aguilar
    Writer
    Ah, Raza!: The Making of an American Artist; Absence of Answers; The Turn Around
  • Gustavo Aguilar
    Writer
    Ah, Raza!: The Making of an American Artist; Absence of Answers; The Turn Around
  • Gaelyn Aguilar
    Producer
    Ah, Raza!: The Making of an American Artist; Absence of Answers; The Turn Around
  • Gustavo Aguilar
    Producer
    Ah, Raza!: The Making of an American Artist; Absence of Answers; The Turn Around
  • David Shimotakahara
    Key Cast
    GroundWorks DanceTheater
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Music Video, Short, Other
  • Runtime:
    14 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    November 2, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    500 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digtal
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1.90∶1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Distribution Information
  • TUG Collective Imprints
    Distributor
    Country: United States
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Gaelyn Aguilar, Gustavo Aguilar

TUG Collective
Gaelyn Aguilar and Gustavo Aguilar

TUG is an interdisciplinary arts collective that creates contact zones where people can generate insights about, and produce actions around, contemporary social issues. Recent projects include: Who Eats at Taco Bell?, an 11-state journey across the National Historic Lewis and Clark Trail that tapped into the generative power of the taco as one of the apostles of Mexican food in the United States in order to think about the multiple ways that Americans conceptualize what it means to be an American; and Connect24, a gathering of people interested in evaluating and addressing issues of access and connectivity while riding the 24th Street route of the Omaha Metro Transit. TUG’s work has been presented in such creative spaces as the Luminary Center for the Arts, Charlotte Street Foundation, The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Holter Museum of Art, SoCA Armouries Gallery, Lawrence Arts Center, Guapamacátaro Center for Art and Ecology, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Guelph Jazz Festival and Colloquium, and the Center for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence. TUG is on faculty in the MFA Art Practice program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

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Director Statement

'This Part I Carry' is the companion film to 'Who Will Care for the Dead?', a collection of text and image about the pre-sentiment of loss, created by Gaelyn and Gustavo Aguilar, Co-Artistic Directors of TUG Collective. Filmed over an eight-hour session on the distant, third-floor of a 330,000 square-foot, former foundry in Cleveland, 'This Part I Carry' brings the Aguilars and their long-time collaborator, David Shimotakahara (GroundWorks DanceTheater) back together as they explore the relationship of self and memory to the experience of aging rooted in their own respective bodies and in those of the people they love. Shimotakahara’s movements cycle through numerous structures of feeling to a guitar suite, which Gustavo Aguilar, former Music Director of GroundWorks, composed, performed and recorded while sheltered in place as the novel coronavirus emerged. A patch of Marley dance floor, a track of sun poking through dingy window panes, a wall of decomposing insulation, a sinewy tangle of wires. Caught with the camera’s eye of Gaelyn Aguilar, the deeper implications of care and reciprocity never far from her mind, there is a relationship of kinship here, forged through color and light, texture and deterioration, and a sheer persistence “to survive one’s own departure” (Hannah Arendt).