On Not Looking: Notes on Absence follows the first film, On Looking, Again: Notes On An Image, by turning away from Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother and focusing instead on what the photograph leaves outside the frame. Using a collage of archival stills and footage, it traces the forces surrounding the image (environmental collapse, labour displacement, and financial decisions made elsewhere) and considers the limits of what images can reveal. Where the first film is focused on looking, this one asks what responsibility remains when looking is no longer sufficient.