This is a film about my cat, Clem. It is also a rumination on the cats in general, the self-portrait, ruins and blindness. Clem mixes material from personal archives of film and photography with text, images and sounds from other sources, including work by St Augustine, BeeShocK, Jorge Luis Borges, Fernando Botero, Jules Breton, Sophie Calle, Serena Carone, Lovis Corinth, Pietro da Cortona, Gustave Courbet, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Jacques Derrida, Kirby Dick, Carl Theodor Dreyer, José Echenagusía, Frantz Fanon, Guy Farber, Federico Fellini, Baptiste Gagnereaux, Clyde Geronimi, Luca Giordano, Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, Takashi Hiraide, Alfred Hitchcock, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Wilfred Jackson, Annie Leibovitz, Auguste and Louis Lumière, Hamilton Luske, Étienne-Jules Marey, Djibril Diop Membéty, Chris Marker, Alan Martin, Andrew Marvell, Jean-François Millet, Gustave Moreau, Laura Mulvey, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jordan Peele, JR, Rembrandt, Peter Paul Rubens, Soseki Natsume, Str8Pimpin, The Cats Pyjaaaamas, Pellgrino Tibaldi, Jacques Tourneur, Agnès Varda, Nikki Vargas, Peter Wollen, Xiedubbel, Amy Ziering Kofman.
—William Brown