@gabriellekannemeyer

Photographer / Stylist / Creative Director

Cape Town, South Africa

How are you living the quarantine: fears and dreams?

As a country, we've officially been in lockdown since the 27th of March but my partner and I have been social distancing for almost 2 weeks now. The infection rate in my country is now growing exponentially, the number of infected people has climbed to just over 1000 people. In my household, we're hoping for the best but are expecting the worst after seeing what's been happening in every other country. We're all afraid for our loved ones.

It's been absolutely surreal in the most terrifying sense. Trying to process the magnitude of this disaster seems futile at this point. I've taken to trying to distract myself through work and watching films. There has been plenty of time for losing myself in all the films and books I've been shelving until now so there's some respite from the anxiety.

Mostly though, I am fearful for my parents and loved ones' health and devastated for those who are having to endure the trauma, pain and loss of life that this disease has inflicted.

What is your soundtrack?

When I am anxious or low I experience musical anhedonia and so I haven't been listening to music lately. I have however been revisiting my favourite films:

Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki

2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick

Black Narcissus by Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell

The Holy Mountain by Alejandro Jodorowsky

Enter the Void by Gaspar Noe,

House of Flying Daggers by Zhang Yimou

Melancholia by Lars von Trier

Inxeba (The Wound) by John Trengove

Samsara by Ron Fricke

Moonlight by Barry Jenkins

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by Ang Lee