Meshed by Reflection
(Elke Stirling, 2025)

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

Elke Stirling is a third year English Literature and Film student. She enjoys exploring the ways in which bodies inhabit space, and how their presence shifts power dynamics within these environments.

This film is produced as part of Transgressive Cinema Module.

SYNOPSIS

Meshed by Reflection combines materialist techniques with subjectivity in an attempt to dissolve the following binaries: self/other, internal/external, and public/private. Fixating on two sisters, the work seeks to interrogate the power dynamics of the gaze and the consequences of the distance we anoint between ourselves and the film’s subjects. Meshed by Reflection begs the question of how to distinguish bodies that are physically close, and those that are inorganically conjoined. In doing so, the work highlights that body proximity can transcend visual clarity or physical closeness, instead becoming an intrinsic, machinic connection that a camera cannot capture.

CAST & CREW

Elke Stirling (Writer and Director) - Subject 2

Mitzi Stirling – Subject 1

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Meshed by Reflection (Elke Stirling, 2025)

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

SYNOPSIS

CAST & CREW

Meshed by Reflection
(Elke Stirling, 2025)