Bio
I’m a filmmaker working across narrative film, documentary and commercial projects, guided by sustained research into intergenerational memory, belief and archives.
Writing is central to my process.
I studied a BSc and later an MSc in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics. Anthropology’s emphasis on participation and embodied knowledge continues to inform how I work with people and places.
This approach extends into my ongoing engagement with urbanism through Freehold Magazine, where I focus on placemaking and everyday interventions into urban spaces.
Alongside my film practice, I work commercially with start-ups, fashion brands and cultural institutions. My commercial experience includes project management, branding, graphic design and creative direction.
Email: brandonstcatherine@gmail.com
Instagram: @beesaintcee
CV
IT TAKES TWO DOC 45456
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Director: Penelope Corinaldesi
DOP: Brandon St. Catherine
HD Video
3-Channel
16:9
Colour
5 minutes 55 seconds
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Returning to a domestic accident from her childhood, an event she never witnessed but inherited through its aftermath, the work navigates the tension between absence and witness, fact and speculation. Across three screens, reenactments, cartoons, auto-ethnographic writing, and footage of her mother swimming form a looping inquiry, marked by longing for an alternative ending.
FURTHER READINGS:
Balsom, E & Peleg, H (eds) 2016, Documentary Across Disciplines, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London.
Stara, A & Bényei, T (eds) 2014, The Edges of Trauma: Explorations in Visual Art and Literature, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Nichols, B 2008, ‘Documentary Reenactment and the Fantasmatic Subject’, Critical Inquiry, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 72–89, University of Chicago Press.