End of Life is the product of six years spent by John Bruce and Paweł Wojtasik with five individuals at various stages in the process of dying. In preparation for this project, the filmmakers trained to be end-of-life doulas and co-created hundreds of hours of interactions within collaborative exchanges. The Doula works with the dying person, along with those surrounding him or her, to help design, guide and support their wishes for whatever a “good death” might mean for them. The film employs an immersive, participatory approach intended as an invitation for viewers to explore their body, their senses, and their ability to be present in relation to their own mortality. Bruce and Wojtasik became increasingly interested in visceral, primal responses to mortality, and during their research process these responses became their own. There is an openness, even a certain willed ambivalence, to this approach that reflects the unique quality of life in its final phase, when the mundane and the significant seem to flow seamlessly, one into the other.  The two Greek words differentiating time - chronos (clock time) and kairos (the supreme moment), reflect the durational form of the film - the disruption of sequential logics at the end of life and the emergence of temporal poetics.

End of Life project includes: the feature-length film End of Life (2017); the immersive film installation End of Life, curated by Equitable Vitrines in Los Angeles (2016); collaborations with Design for Living and Dying, a research and design studio at Parsons, The New School (2016-18); and the installation (IM)MORTALITY curated by Park Place Gallery, NY (2018). Collaborations with End of Life project and Matt Freedman include: short film and performance ACME Death Kit, Park Place Gallery, NY (2018); short film and performance Sleight of Hand, Studio 10 Gallery, NY (2019); and the film/performance Magic and Catastrophe, presented by Park Place Gallery and Studio 10 Gallery, NY (2020). The series Endless Broken Time by Matt Freedman and Tim Spelios features their drawing/talking/percussion performances at Studio 10 Gallery, NY.