ANAIS CHABEUR

Visions for Crossing proposes to engage with our mortal condition by giving attention to the gestures of care we offer our dead and collecting intimate stories around the threshold process of « becoming imperceptible ». The project aims to share and explore embodied knowledge and practices that resist the dramatic effects of the commercialisation of deathcare, and the general disappearance of the dying from modern society. 

I will focus on the «laying out» of the corpse, an ancestral practice that consists in the cleaning, grooming and dressing of the body after death. The project will take the form of an experimental multichannel documentary, composed of portraits of people who perform this act in different contexts : medical, religious and familial.