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Like a Tongue Knows the Mouth
Single channel video
23 minutes
2024

Time becomes a spiral when a freeway fire causes a city-wide traffic jam, guiding the filmmaker to follow an old woman walking through the rain and bare violence of Downtown Los Angeles. In the wake of her father's death she begins to see herself in stray balloons drifting across pavement, mirror reflections, and a fantasized ghost woman.

​Photography is used to capture time before it slips away, to turn oneself into an emblem of a static idea, or, in this case, to grapple with that which moves outside the frame of comprehension. Ohio descends into her personal archive and brings back the solitude of being human, the presence of absence, and the inescapable nature of the first home.