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Daniela Paglione

Sinking Line

Experimental film | hdv | black and white | 6:30 | Canada, United Kingdom | 2024

A son revisits his old home, a place he once knew, searching for a lobster to prove to his father. An exploration of the complexity of masculinity and a letter to my father.

Born in Montréal, Québec, Daniela Paglione is an experimental artist and undergraduate Communications student at Concordia University. She was captivated by filmmaking at a young age and pursued that passion in her studies. Her films “The Earth was Formless and Void” and "Where Old Voices Go" were featured in Concordia’s Film and Media Vernissage 2023 (Montréal, Québec). Her new film “Sinking Line”, was recently screened at the Moving Images Alliance Collective, as well as in the 33rd edition of Vidéo de Femmes dans le parc in Montréal. Currently, she works at Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV), an artist-run distribution centre dedicated to promoting works made by women. Daniela has been creating short films independently since 2019. Her work is experimental and focuses on themes of the self, death, and the unconscious.