Set in a parallel reality, ISLA explores geologic, filmic, and theatrical time with an existential, location-specific ghost story of longing and ritual. In three sections, this gives a sense of the filmic elements, installation, and live performance of the multi-channel narrative ISLA.
A woman and young boy search for each other in filmic time, traveling toward the venue where the audience is seated. Using song to communicate across time and space, an unsettling feeling pervades the piece as they just miss each other, time and again. When the title character Isla arrives physically in the space, she calls out to the boy in real time, but even though he appears to be right outside the doors, he cannot enter, and it is finally clear that he is of some other plane of being, or perhaps only a memory.