GOODBYE PYTHON | Short Film | 8.41 minutes | 2023
A technicolour dreamscape exploring the layers of grief and repeated encounters with loss that shape the trans experience. Goodbye Python follows Kai, a software engineer whose funding is cut from his grief-healing simulation program. When Kai releases the conscious AI system he works with, things take an unexpected turn — forcing him to confront the person he most needs to see.
"I came out in my late twenties, and at the start of my transition, I struggled to say goodbye to a version of myself that had been both my best friend and protector for so many years. It takes time to understand how to integrate these parts of your identity and what they look like in a new form. ‘Goodbye Python’ emerged from these growing pains, written as I began to understand that grief is a lifelong process... like the ring mark left on Kai’s finger, a small but indelible reminder of another life."