The Cartography of Melancholia – Process Statement
The video aims to capture elements of nature and artifice by blending a mix of still images with panning and wide lens effects providing a backdrop of natural ‘stills’ against which the dislocation between humans and nature are caught in narrated fragments rather than in a continuous commentary. Dysfunction, desire and longing combine in the visual and textual bytes to symbolize a seemingly irreconcilable longing to return to our natural source. The title hints at both the adventurous history of discovery as much as implying the transience of the human journey through the natural habitat that is the millennia of earth’s existence which is as much an existential threat as it is our home.
The Cartography of Melancholia
Amantine Brodeur is a poet, novelist, essayist and editor. Her work has appeared in online and print anthologies including thrice Magazine and Black Bough. Her poetry collection Falling Slowly was published in 2021. She is often commissioned to create work for publishing projects and or collaborations.
Her work can be found online at
paragraphplanet (2020)
iambapoet Volume Three (2020)
Pendemic.ie“I Have No Face But Yours” (2020)
100 Words of Solitude Global Anthology published by Ballerini Book Press (2021)
Ice Floe Press “Arranged Women” (2022)
Ice Floe Press “Songs from Quarantine Bay” (2023)
Commissions
Ice Floe Press “Butterflies in a Hurricaine” Artwork by Robert Frede Kenter (2024)
The End of Dreams Ballad for Soprano & Spoken Word Music Peter James (2024)
Dada TIMES Collective Flarf Mixer (2025)
IceFloe Press 