Stand in the Stream (2017)

Stanya Kahns Stand in the Stream is a fastpaced digital film about life death and the inextricability of the personal from the political Made over six years and shot on multiple camera formats it captures candid moments in online chat rooms in the home in the wild and in the streets following the arc of a mothers deterioration and death amidst shifting political and digital landscapes From the birth of a child to the onset of dementia from Tahrir Square to Standing Rock and Trumps inauguration Stand in the Stream is a pulsing and urgent contemporary ode and a call to action