Unspeakable Heap

A short-film about my uncle, a retired greco-roman wrestling olympian living atop a decommissioned landfill. In “The World Of Wrestling” Roland Barthes uses the phrase "unspeakable heap" to describe the wrestler＇s flesh at the moment of defeat spread out on the floor. A heap also recalls the shape of waste and a structure that rises to a climax only to slope down again towards the ground. For the ground is the surface that marks the difference between victory and defeat, the living and the dead, and the present and the past.