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Lizzy is the result of the days spent in the aftermath of the death of a neighbour, who passed in the house where she had lived out her whole life on the Hillsborough River in Tampa, Florida and who left behind an electric organ addressed to the filmmaker, without a note. To receive it was like a wild riddle.How might one story continue in the hands of another? What powers organize the telling? Through weaving indoors with outdoors, dust with swamp, celebration with critique, the film traverses binary notions such as self-world, truth-fiction, witnessing-imagining and nature-experience among others.

Susanna Wallin is an artist and filmmaker engaged in questions regarding what to do with our time, our bodies and the tools we are given to live a life. She probes subject matter across diverse contexts, modalities and timescales, often immersing herself in a particular place over extended periods. She is attentive to what emerges in hesitation, together, through experimentation and open ended, lending an ear to the unspoken with fiction as practice. Born and raised in Sweden, she studied filmmaking and art practice/theory at Goldsmiths College and University of the Arts London in the UK. She has been the recipient of numerous awards including The Flamin London Artist Film and Video Award, New Approaches, Film London UK, Pure Fiction, Sweden and commissions from the UK Film Council, Channel 4, BBC, Arts Council England, Arte France/Germany, SVT, Sweden and the BFI in the UK. Her award-winning films are shown in cinema and gallery contexts and have appeared in venues such as MOCA LA, The American Cinematheque, The Barbican, Whitechapel Gallery, The London Underground, ICA and the British Film Institute. In recent years, Wallin has been developing several feature length film projects, one of which is set in Florida and now in post production. She is part of the Research School at University of the Arts London in the UK completing a PhD through practice and is Assistant Professor of Film and Video at University of South Florida in the US. She lives and works between Tampa and London.