Now You See Me — ritasilva

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To Cut The Evil By The Root ^2020-2025
Will You Tell It For Me? ²⁰²⁴
Reap What You Sow ²⁰²⁴
Now You See Me ²⁰²³
Dead Calm ²⁰¹⁷

Does It Look Like I’m Here

Matrilineal Myhtologies
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Anthotype Workshop

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Now You See Me

One channel video 30’min
2023

Moving Image

Documentary

Now You See Me is a tender, time-worn letter to a grandmother slowly disappearing. Filmed over four years entirely within the confines of a shared home, it lingers on the quiet rhythms of daily life - the gestures, silences, and routines that shape a world gradually slipping from memory.

As dementia unspools the threads of recognition and language, the camera holds close to what remains: the texture of skin, the weight of a pause, the light shifting across a room. Through repetition and intimate observation, the filmmaker, both caregiver and grandchild, captures the slow fading of a loved one, and the quiet transformation of their own inner world.

Time bends and blurs, moments return and vanish. In holding space for what can no longer be recalled, Now You See Me becomes an act of presence, a portrait of love traced in the ordinary, and a way of remembering when memory itself begins to fail.