Dal niente

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a short film by Christina McPhee

with sound and music byJulie Herndon

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Premiere for AN EVENING OF SHORT FILMS PRESENTED BY CHRISTINA MCPHEE at FIVE MYLEs, BROOKLYN, 10 November 2023

 

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DAL NIENTE, with Julie Herndon, 10 minutes, 2023 (premiere)

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Julie Herndon: “In the gaps between old patterns and new ones...a world began to emerge…” Dal Niente is a coastal meditation along the proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary. 

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About the moving image: Christina McPhee makes braided, textured, and layered works through an engagement with a more-than-human cosmology, in drawing, painting, photomontage and video. “One gets the sense that the image conjured up is all at once a particular, individual, material composite (colored ink, graphite, paper, the skies of a hand) and a precarious, temporary, expression of forces for which no adequate, human language exists...Thanks to video, the promise and desperation of these sites—their striving— can be ‘condensed,’ ‘extracted,’ and reanimated. This is a distinctively futurist form of eco-sensitivity, a state of affective engagement...” Ina Blom, Mineral Belief (2017).

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