Your Eyes Will Be an Empty Word

This video by Coco Fusco includes footage of the artist traveling by boat around Hart Island, the site of New York’s public cemetery that was operated by the city’s department of corrections until October 1, 2021. Since 1869, prison labor has been used to bury more than a million New Yorkers in mass graves on the island. Many individuals have been buried anonymously—especially during epidemics. Fusco’s video features a meditation she wrote on the conditions of the current pandemic and is performed by poet Pamela Sneed.

Documentary

Your Eyes Will Be an Empty Word

Casting arrow_drop_down

arrow_drop_down

Crew arrow_drop_down

arrow_drop_down

Similar Films

  • A Late Style of Fire
  • The Peculiar Sensation of Being Pat Ingoldsby
  • Jean Genet: Saint, martyr et poète
  • A Message from the East
  • Thân Thể Rừng Thiêng
  • حبيبي بيستناني عند البحر
  • Julia, toda en mí
  • Skál
  • The Lady in the Book - Sylvia Plath, portraits
  • Great Poets: In Their Own Words
  • Hart Crane: An Exegesis
  • За възможността да се живее
  • Swans: A Long Slow Screw.
  • 日曜日式散步者
  • Музыка жизни
  • Pagsisiyasat sa Gabing Ayaw Lumimot

NextFilm 2025