SOPHIE CUNDALE : THE NEAR ROOM

15 Aug-13 Sep 2020

Overview

Artist Sophie Cundale presents a new film, a supernatural melodrama about loss that follows the journey of a professional boxer after a near-fatal knockout. The boxer’s disorientations become entangled with the story of a queen living with Cotard Delusion, a rare neurological condition inducing the belief in and sensation of death. The film’s title, The Near Room (2020), is taken from the boxer Muhammad Ali’s description of a vivid, hallucinatory space he would enter when in the depths of a fight. The cast includes professional boxer John Harding Jnr., artist Penny Goring, and actor Chris New.