No News From Home is an experimental short that explores the mental health impacts of isolation, anxiety, and fear resulting from the pandemic.

Filmed using a Fisher-Price Pixelvision toy camera, made popular by women experimental filmmakers in the 90s, the camera is used here as an homage to these filmmakers’ autobiographical impulses, while its lo-fi, pixelated aesthetics mimic surveillance camera footage and a sense of being watched.

Synopsis:

A woman engages in cleaning and disinfecting her personal space. As days begin to blend and political and social messages infiltrate her personal space, her cleaning rituals become manic, repetitive, and lose all meaning. No News From Home is a lyrical exploration of the resulting mental distress that occurs when the fear of an unseen danger takes hold and all one has left to ground is the echo of isolation.