As director of The Obituary Project, a compendium of work informed by the structure and purpose of the quotidian narrative found in newspapers, Hope Tucker reframes the passing of sites, rituals, cultural markers, and ways of being.
She has documented fallen witness trees and disappearing Civil Rights era landmarks, animated old instructions for making fishing nets by hand, shot mobile phone footage of the remaining public phone booths of Finland, and written the entire text of a video out of paper clips, a symbol of Nordic nationalism.
Screenings include Ann Arbor; Antimatter, Victoria; Athens, Greece; Athens, Ohio; Centre for Contemporary Culture, Barcelona; Film Center, Chicago; Flatpack, Birmingham; Gallery Titanik, Turku; Images, Toronto; Leeds International Film Festival; National Museum of Women in the Arts, DC; PDX; Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia; Wexner Center for the Arts; WTTW Chicago Public Television.
hopetucker (at) theobituaryproject.org