The Yearning Room
Minka Jakerson
The yearning room explores the idea of love as a cultural institution in which, our level of existence is measured in terms of the desire we provoke in others. In the absence of the other, we wait... Waiting then becomes erotic, as we imagine the feeling of wholeness promised by the expected union. The film's narration is constructed around a young girl who is waiting: her thoughts wander, imagining various scenarios in which she hopes to find love and to satisfy her desires.
With : Clare Cairns, Mélanie Drake, Ruth McGhie
Screenplay : Minka Jakerson
Image : Minka Jakerson, Gesa Knolle, Sam Mitchell
Sound : Björn Knutsson, Tim Dyer, Ingvild Soderlind
Editing : Minka Jakerson
Screenplay : Minka Jakerson
Image : Minka Jakerson, Gesa Knolle, Sam Mitchell
Sound : Björn Knutsson, Tim Dyer, Ingvild Soderlind
Editing : Minka Jakerson
Production : Minka Jakerson, Edinburgh College of Art
Minka Jakerson was born in 1978. After two years studying in France she entered the film, television and photography department of the ECA (Edinburgh College of Art). In 2001 she made The Parrot Room, an experimental student film, then in 2002 Kulturbro, a 58min documentary. The Yearning Room was her graduation film. She is presently studying in Copenhagen.