Foreclosed is an experimental film depicting homes whose previous owners have failed to meet their mortgage payments and thus have been evicted. Now owned by banks, these places bear the marks of sad lives and hasty departures. This project is about suggesting ambiguity and isolation in contemporary suburbia through a style of pictorial effects. Like a benign but creepy surveillance aficionado, a private eye of domestic disarray, the camera moves silently and deliberately among the eerily lit rooms observing the few vestigial reminders and suggests the inhabitants’ failures.

Most tantalizing is the question of who lived in these houses, yet anonymity is one of the most redolent themes in the film. I do not want to show any sign of judgment on my subjects, I rather wish to turn the banal into something beautiful. With the exclusion of any exterior or ‘establishing’ shots these unpeopled scenes should create tension, a menacing air of expectancy but at the same time also exude comfort and even warmth.