Twelve (2015)

Melanie Manchot

Twelve explores the intimate stories, rituals and ruptures of lives spent in addiction and recovery. It captures the individual processes of 12 people who the artist collaborated with in three rehabilitation communities. Participants watched iconic films and selected favourite scenes to re-interpret, applying their own narratives and performances. Melanie enables us to witness their paths out of long-term addiction and towards recovery, and the slow process of building new identities and ways of living.