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Shemila Eden & Bruce Gordon
Bruce Gordon is a multidisciplinary artist and creative director based in the Cayman Islands. As co-founder of ZEAL, a visual production studio in Grand Cayman known for its evocative storytelling, Gordon merges design, cinematography, and narrative strategy to craft deeply resonant visual works. His creative practice spans commercial and cultural spheres, with a strong commitment to local storytelling and visual experimentation.
Shemila Eden is a creative producer, writer, and co-founder of ZEAL, a Cayman-based visual production studio that specializes in cinematic storytelling with purpose. With a background in media, education, and community-focused communications, Eden plays a central role in shaping ZEAL’s voice and vision. Her practice is rooted in the belief that stories, especially those grounded in place and ancestry, can serve as powerful tools of connection and reflection.
CIRCLES OF TIME ARTWORK
Soul'd Out
Short Film
Acting by Georgina Kerford
Directing by Shemila Eden
Director of Photography and Editing by Bruce Gordon
Assistant Directing by Mari-Abe Hudson
Makeup & Hair by Sandra Milanés B
BTS Camera Operating by Joshua McField
Voice Acting by Emily A., Daphnie Frederick
Writing by Bruce Gordon
Soul’d Out is a cinematic mediation on memory, place, and cultural inheritance, created by Shemila Eden and Bruce Gordon as part of Zeal’s Creative Sunday’s initiative. Described by the artists as a visual poem, the film blends spoken word, performance, and lush imagery to reflect on our evolving relationship with Grand Cayman. The result is a bittersweet and immersive experience. It is part tribute, part reckoning.
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In conversation with the curatorial themes of Circles of Time, Soul’d Out explores the cyclical nature of time and the continuity of cultural identity. It does not offer a fixed narrative but invites viewers into archive, one that loops backward through collective memory while pushing forward into contemporary reality. “Are we watching the change, or are we the architects of it” the film asks, situating its audience within this living current. Hovering between recollection and reverie, Soul’d Out serves as both a reflection and a call – an artistic gesture that reminds us how time and place, like identity, is both held and reimagined.