This is my Happiness. This is who I am.
29:17 | UK | 2025 | two-channel video installation
A documentary encounter over a year with Miam Vyas, a singer from Mexico, now remarried and living in London. Fragments of actuality and memory are stitched together across two screens to meditate on the experience, engaging with themes of migration, trauma, family and cross-cultural belonging.
The structure of the work is inspired by Sergey Eisenstein’s idea of ‘contrasting independent closeness’, modelled on the Mexican sarape (as described in his diaries) as a montage method.
Credits:
Written, directed, filmed and edited by Veronika Peat
Sound design by Mikolaj Tchorzewski
Cast: Miam Vyas, Vish Vyas, Luis Daniel Diaz Garcia