The Girl, the Donkey, and an Elixir for Life…2022- 2025, is a three channel, multispecies film created in collaboration with an abandoned donkey in Leh, India. The piece reflects on gender roles and animal intimacies in traditional butter production, a practice historically carried out by women—who churn butter in sheepskins—and traded by men via animal caravans along the Silk Road, a tradition some nomadic tribes in the region continue today. The video’s soundscape merges the harsh climate and living conditions of Leh with the rhythmic chants sung by women during domestic labor. In its final act, the churned butter is fed to the donkey-an offering acknowledging the animal labor embedded in this cultural and culinary practice, with an attempt to collapse the boundaries between giver and receiver, laborer and beneficiary.