A film made in collaboration with Max Cookward exploring the identity polarity of performer & carer.
"The bond between brothers is hard to communicate through language – and for dancer Max Cookward and their brother Lyall, it’s a relationship strengthened by its complexities. In autobiographical film BROTHERS, commissioned by Flux Projects, Max translates the intimate and unconventionally beautiful bond they share, exploring through movement the nuanced emotions that arise from his role as Lyall’s carer.
Overcoming the limitations of verbal communication by engaging through movement, body language, and touch, Max and Lyall have found a new means of connection that transcends language. Serving as a choreographed response to emotions impossible to put into words, expanding their communicative abilities through movement has, in turn, shaped Max's creative process as a dancer, using the medium as a form of catharsis through which to interpret their experiences."