As I bury my face into my hands (2022, HD Video, 6'26")

Language: English

A poetical digital story by Tina Bikic

Credits
Filmed, Edited, Written and Narrated by Tina Bikic

Cast

In the role of narrator's double

Henna-Riikka Nurmi

Choreography
Henna-Riikka Nurmi

Music

Vocalist and Composer
Salóme Katrín Magnúsdóttir

Musician and Composer
Johanna Eränkö Hyytinen

Producer
Mediagrammi e.V.

Co-founded by Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

AS I BURY MY FACE INTO MY HANDS

ABOUT

2.4 Defining the poetic script: composing poetics in both text and screen

3.4 Imaginative ways: On story formation

3.5 Writing and rewriting of emotional landscapes

About

As I bury my face into my hands is a poetical digital story created at the beginning of the Russian–Ukrainian war. The work reflects on the emotional landscape of conflict and its traces in personal and collective memory.

Through fragmented narration and poetic rhythm, it explores grief, trauma, and endurance as psychological states inscribed in both body and voice.

Viewers have described it as a moment of beauty that emerges through sorrow, offering a pause for hope and solace during these difficult times.

The film seeks to transform personal emotion into shared reflection, continuing my research into space, memory, and affective imagination.

The world is crying and I don’t know if my outstretched hands are enough for consolation.

-EXCERPT FROM AS I BURY MY FACE INTO MY HANDS

As I bury my face into my hands

Written and Narrated by Tina Bikic

The world I observe today may be appearing to me for the last time
in its true appearance.
I feel its dignity.
I will remember you as such and in no other way.