Forever in Your Arms

Inspired by a Reddit thread from a husband asking for advice on how to best backup the memories of his recently deceased wife in order for their newborn daughter to see them when she is older, the video explores themes of memory, data accumulation and data loss. Traveling from a basement room filled with cardboard boxes and screens stating the vital signs of storage devices to a tunnel made of screens with cables hanging from the ceiling, the video shows a recorded virtual reality performance of a character exploring, examining and being thrown between these two rooms of memory. The sound is made by My Sword, the video by Philip Ullman and Carl Herner and the text and voice by Philip Ullman. The video, text and sound were created simultaneously, creating a process where all aspects of the work fed into each other. The poem could be interpreted as a love poem to the cloud, the promise of infinite data storage and infinite memory. stay for a future past of what once was a life