WREST FILMS / various lengths, color super-8 film, 2012
Developing the material from the WREST performance, this series of single-channel films explores Joan of Arc as an archetypal narrative of transformation. Through the pairing of film with the studio recorded music, this series of vignettes creates a dreamlike space of mythical characters performing within extreme landscapes – the expansive desert of New Mexico, the harsh, bleak winter in Maine. WREST engages with notions of the abject body and it’s relationship to non-linear time and space and to historical figures such as Saint Michael and Joan of Arc (all performed by family members or loved ones.) Edited through a musicality approach, WREST refines its relationship to the operatic metal score, working in both symphonic and infinitesimal gestures. The result is a succession of lyrical films that evoke archetypal ghosts and spirits within our own time of immanent destruction and transformation.
Screened at the Galapagos Art Space and Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
