Moving Through is a collection of work that explores moments of bodily, social and economic displacement. Sorrell aims to investigate these themes in every possible facet by “moving through” multiple mediums such as painting, metal sculpture and film. 

Madalyn Loucks Sorrell and Cade Hogan, Moving Through, 2024, 4 and ½ minutes 

Moving Through is a collaborative documentary by Madalyn Loucks Sorrell and Cade Hogan. The film centers around exploring moments of bodily, social and economic displacement. In the interviews, three women describe moments in their lives where their bodies became barriers to their autonomy and how they’ve navigated these experiences. Their testimonials, filmed within the quiet intimacy of their homes, highlight how multifaceted people can be, and how what’s on the surface isn’t always as it appears.

More About Madalyn Loucks Sorrell

In my practice, I have been investigating bodily memory to reckon with personal identity and chronic illness. My work serves as an attempt to explore and challenge the displacement I feel in my own body. This displacement stems from experiences throughout my life where the body became a barrier between me and the ability to make decisions for myself. My work aims to reclaim autonomy through representations of these experiences. When I work with metal, the material demands a type of labor that feels ritualistic. It is a transaction between my body and the material. The heating and smashing of metal are metamorphic, not unlike how the body transforms during trauma. Metal, when under heat and pressure, becomes new. A new vessel for memory. Here, the broken thing becomes a testament to the resilience of the body rather than something invaluable. Changed and reassembled by my hands, this labor makes me the catalyst for these observable metamorphoses.

Follow Loucks on IG: @mlsorrellart

More About Cade Hogan

Cade Hogan is a US writer/director/actor who is currently based in Raleigh North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts Summer Film Program where he was able to start making movies on a bigger scale. From there, Cade began his journey on creating his independent short films and his first feature A Likely Story. His filmography includes the audience renowned parody film Thursday the 12th and was followed by many shorts focused on comedy including: The Average Inspection of the General Parade Float, Wrong Address, Immortality, and Meeting Mary. These films can all be found on his Youtube Channel linked below. 

For inquiries contact at: cademack28@gmail.com