{"id":25427,"date":"2026-07-02T17:11:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T21:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/termite.org\/mound\/?p=25427"},"modified":"2026-07-02T18:01:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T22:01:37","slug":"mending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/termite.org\/mound\/mending\/","title":{"rendered":"Mending"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"25427\" class=\"elementor elementor-25427\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"ob-is-breaking-bad elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-bc95f15 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"bc95f15\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ob_bbad_use_it&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;_ob_bbad_sssic_use&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_glider_is_slider&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container 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class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Termite TV explores: Mending\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2><h3><strong>Mending &#8211; 1<\/strong><\/h3><p>PhillyCAM Program:<\/p><p><strong>Coordinating\u00a0Producer\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Ingrid\u00a0Rapha\u00ebl<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>America,\u00a0America\u00a0by\u00a0Ahmed\u00a0Hassouna\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Alejandra\u00a0Lopez<\/strong><br \/>Mending is a reflection on identity, language, and memory. Through conversations, poetry, and personal experience, the film traces a journey of searching for self between cultures and languages. As memories shift and meanings change, the act of writing becomes a way to hold things together \u2014to mend what feels fragmented.<\/p><p><strong>What\u00a0the\u00a0Body\u00a0Keeps,\u00a0the\u00a0Hands\u00a0Undo\u00a0by\u00a0Lamont\u00a0Nathaniel\u00a0Gibson<\/strong><br \/>Explores the act of mending, both physical and emotional, through an intimate, process-driven lens. Centered on the careful washing of a pink rug as a gesture of renewal, the film weaves together archival voicemails and childhood photographs from the artist\u2019s family, layering fragments of everyday communication with visual traces of the past. These materials form a textured meditation on memory, distance, and connection. As the rug is cleaned and restored, the film reflects on repair as a ritual. A way of tending to what is worn, preserving what remains, and finding quiet resilience in acts of care.<\/p><p><strong>Dear\u00a0Mom:\u00a0by\u00a0Julian\u00a0Dupree<br \/><\/strong>Dear Mom: I thought about all the work you&#8217;ve put in over the years, all the ways you&#8217;ve shown love, tapped into truths, embraced humanity. I thought about all the ways you\u2019ve encouraged me to show up and dance and laugh and be free. I think about our fish ancestors, and Aunt Judy, and the abundance of complicated but deeply rooted love that you and grandmom committed to over and over and over again. I&#8217;m thinking about Cath, and the weight of our collective heartbreak. The world has felt your magic. You carry us all in unimaginable ways, but you do not carry any of this alone. How lucky we are that we\u2019ve belonged to each other since the beginning of time.<\/p><p><strong>Kintsugi\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Hugs\u00a0by\u00a0nat\u00a0thomas<\/strong><br \/>Kintsugi\u00a0and\u00a0Hugs\u00a0are\u00a0a\u00a0celebration\u00a0of\u00a0life\u00a0and\u00a0unity.<\/p><p><strong>Finding\u00a0Solitude\u00a0by\u00a0Jere\u00a0Edmunds<\/strong><br \/>My personal journey of finding inner peace, self-reflection, inner strength, and joy in simple things, reconnecting with nature and appreciating that my \u201dEarly Fall\u201d in Life is still a bountiful and colorful banquet. My sunset is not just an ending. just a setup for tomorrow\u2019s sunrise, another new beginning.<\/p><p><strong>Seamless\u00a0by\u00a0Madison\u00a0Claire\u00a0Roberts<\/strong><br \/>Seamless moves between dissolution and becoming, tracing a nonlinear journey through fear, fragmentation, and a return to wholeness. Grounded in non-duality, it favors sensation over narrative, inviting viewers into a meditative experience where separation is revealed as illusion. Through minimal, contemplative visuals and sound, the film frames disintegration as part of a larger continuity. Seamless invites us to see that healing isn\u2019t about becoming whole, but remembering we never weren\u2019t<\/p><p><strong>Still\u00a0Me\u00a0by\u00a0Tamara\u00a0R.\u00a0Jackson<br \/><\/strong>Explores healing, identity, and human resilience through intimate storytelling. Blending personal narrative, visual symbolism, archival imagery, and reflective voice. Centered in authenticity and connection, my work invites audiences to reflect on what it means to mend, adapt, and remain whole through life\u2019s uncertainties.<\/p><h3><strong>Mending &#8211; 2<\/strong><\/h3><p>Termite TV Program<\/p><p><strong>Coordination\u00a0Producer\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0gabe\u00a0castro<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>Pins\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Needles\u00a0by\u00a0Debbie\u00a0Rudman<\/strong><br \/>Not\u00a0dead!\u00a0Hit\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Run.\u00a0Emerging\u00a0from\u00a0a\u00a0state\u00a0of\u00a0agitation\u00a0due\u00a0to\u00a0distal\u00a0radial\u00a0fracture,\u00a0hand-made\u00a0healing\u00a0involved\u00a0sewing\u00a0buttons\u00a0&amp;\u00a0camera-less\u00a0filmmaking.<\/p><p><strong>Interstitial\u00a0by\u00a0Megan\u00a0Llewellyn<br \/><\/strong>A section of the longer in-progress work, Or The Modern Prometheus, an adaptation of the novel Frankenstein comprised solely of clips of public domain film and video footage.<\/p><p><strong>UPROOTED\u00a0by\u00a0J.\u00a0Eliza\u00a0Wall<br \/><\/strong>This piece is dedicated to all of the families who have been uprooted due to conflict and destruction. Man\u2019s greed for power is fraying our social fabric and stripping our planet of its resources and magic. If they\u2019ve tried to break you, dig down deep, and grow towards the light.<\/p><p><strong>Dancing\u00a0with\u00a0the\u00a0stones\u00a0by\u00a0Kae\u00a0Luck<br \/><\/strong>A haunting lyric video about grief, mending your sense of self and purpose and continuing to exist when the person you wanted to have see that most, is gone<\/p><p><strong>stitched\u00a0by\u00a0gabe\u00a0castro<br \/><\/strong>stitched explores the complications of memory. How much are our memories changed when revisited, what do others remember, and how can we fill in the blanks?<\/p><p><strong>Mending\u00a0Memories\u00a0by\u00a0Anula\u00a0Shetty<br \/><\/strong>Mending Memories explores the fragile nature of remembering and the way physical objects act as anchors for forgotten memories.<\/p><p><strong>Mending\u00a0by\u00a0Bonnie\u00a0MacAllister\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Jamie\u00a0Campbell<br \/><\/strong>Portrait of the artists knitting difficult, tweeted yarn and sewing a puppet on the Delaware River Waterfront at Cherry Street Pier.<\/p><p><strong>Stories\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0Stitches\u00a0by\u00a0Brittany\u00a0Barbato\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Nasha\u00a0Taylor<br \/><\/strong>A journey of mending in visual poem.<\/p><p><strong>Marble\u00a0Mouth\u00a0by\u00a0Jonathan\u00a0Olshefski<\/strong>A former model is injured in a bicycle accident and develops a creative practice to process the experience.<\/p><p><strong>Mending\u00a0the\u00a0Heart\u00a0by\u00a0Dr.\u00a0Jenine\u00a0Lowery<br \/><\/strong>Mending the Heart is a short animated film that follows a woman navigating the emotional aftermath of heartbreak.<\/p><p><strong>What\u00a0Could\u00a0Be\u00a0by\u00a0Alan\u00a0Powell<br \/><\/strong>A documentary of a village in upstate New York coming together to create a mosaic across a footbridge that represents the collective memories of this diverse community. 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