The Invisible Worm (2024) is both funny and serious, with spontaneous moments of joy and physicality. Featuring Marie Lund and Rosalind Nashashibi, the film is driven by both artists' personae and the specific kind of friendship that can exist between artists, leading to both innocent and corrupted effects.
William Blake's poem 'The Sick Rose' (1794) is a recurring text throughout the film. The invisible worm appears itself, at first as an embarrassing 'hair in the gate' stuck on the surface of the 16mm film, then mutating into an animated worm.
Nashashibi's long term collaborator Elena Narbutaitė is the film's protagonist and co-writer, and other artist protagonists include a male model, Nashashibi's teenage son Pietro and a cat called Aloysha. Marie and Rosalind appear, as do their works, their studios and the galleries of Den Frie.
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Follow this link to hear Narbutaitė comment on The Invisible Worm.
