Done Dying

Done Dying is a short animated film produced in collaboration with award-winning director Abi Weaver, in collaboration with Nicola Srubati, Daniele Rugo and composer, Steve Tromans and which incorporates drawings both by the Fellow and her 8 year old son, Eoin Ó Maoilearca.

The film forms part of the project An [Interrupted] Bestiary: an artist’s book and an experiment in performance philosophy which the Fellow has undertaken as a process of thinking alongside the core case study company, Every house has a door.

The film comprises animated images produced by the Fellow during her residencies with the company during their process of creating the performance, Aquarium (2019-2022).

Aquarium is one act of the company's large-scale, multi-year project The Carnival of the Animals: a 14-movement work engaging the titles from Camille Saint-Saëns's 1885 musical suite for children, but with a concentration on the themes of endangerment and extinction.

The film is also dedicated to the Fellow's father, Roger Cull, who died around one month after her first residency with Every house in February 2020. As such, the film deals with the question of extinction as an entanglement of grief in the context of personal loss and ecological grief.

Done Dying has been screened at the the Amsterdam University of the Arts in October 2021; the Borrowed Time festival in the UK in November 2021; and at the University of Vienna in January 2022. The film is also part of the expanded publication project An [Interrupted] Bestiary which was shown at the Uncle Art Gallery in Chicago in September 2022 and at the VOXPop gallery in Amsterdam in January 2023.