The landscape recollects for us, offering oblique access to the memories of those who came before. In LEAVING LANDSCAPE, the stores of four generations of women intermingle in a whisper. Allegories about intimacy from Schopenhauer and Plato are feminized, repurposed, and visualized: a porcupine’s bones laid out, made-up organisms created and divided. The film explores biological and metaphysical reproduction as bodily autonomy vanishes in the US. What is a queer reality? What forms can non-rational knowledge take? This place is not as it seems: the landscape recedes and a world of undulating shapes emerges.