This experimental film moves in constant motion from distance to up close, all the way into the eye of an elderly lady.

Jonathan Lewald grew up in Sweden and Saudi Arabia. He studied music at The Stockholm Music Conservatory, art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, and will graduate with an MA from the Royal University College Of Fine Arts in Stockholm in spring 2010.

The first thought for this film came up visiting my grandmother at her home, where she was recently moved due to her handicap of suffering from Alzheimers Disease. I wanted to work with what she was going through, and how I could identify and understand this state, and do something with it—something more generally applicable.

This film works around the theme of isolation, but also about being the viewer and being viewed at a point that lies in between.

A gaze that is neither inviting nor repelling, just calmly observing you, while being observed, up to a point where the common border of intimacy is being crossed and violated.