Entanglements of Filmic Breath

Stills from Michèle Saint-Michel’s somatic film 21 Scores for Losing Yourself in a Body, featuring Marie

Theresa Crick’s somatic experiencing session

For the film, Saint-Michel met with 34 artists, creating a bridge between their works and finding a

somatic event score that could act as a testimony to the experience. Here we witness Marie Theresa Crick

performing a full body scan with her mind, led by Saint-Michel. The instructions ask the artist to look for

areas of tension and then systematically relax each area. Marie Theresa Crick’s facial muscles slacken and

the shoulders melt away from elevation; her breath grows shallow. We exist in the ontologies and multitemporalities

of our shared air.