A POTENTIALITY (2020, digital, 16mm film, 16 minutes)
Winner of the Alice Guy Prize Special Mention at FID Marseille 2020. Notes from the Jury: A film which meticulously reflects upon the materiality of time following specific histories. While focusing on details, the images prevent us from accessing the whole. This gesture reflects the subject where voice has been violently stripped from the people, left silenced. The Special Mention for Prix Alice Guy goes to “A POTENTIALITY” by Dana Berman Duff.
A POTENTIALITY is a continuation of my interest in using film to shoot printed material, as in the Catalogue series. I'm especially interested in the equivalence of the film grain to the halftone print dot at the base level of the construction of reproduced image and language.
This piece is built on a graphic project by Susan Silton in which she reprinted five pages of the New York Times from the 1930s. Her project has a disturbing resemblance to present day newspaper reports.
Opera "The Emperor of Atlantis" composed in 1944 by Viktor Ulmann, libretto by Peter Kien.
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A POTENTIALITY
2020 Film
Winner of FID
Marseille Alice Guy
The House Is Empty
2020 Film
The Water Is Rising
2020 Installation
World Upside Down
Installation with Shirley Tse
2014
Short Films
2004–20013
Unstable Model
2013
Mishap
Video installation
2011
Odor di Femina Bottles
2009
Some things
about water:
2004 video
Hunger Eats You
Alive
2003 with Pam Strugar
Super 8, 2001
Sculpture and
drawings
Singular Objects
Cyclone 1995
Narcissus…your eyes…like twin pools… 1991
Carnival House
at the Advent
of Disgust, 1991
Odor di Femina 1989
Guilty 1989
Various Sculptures
1987–1998
Filth Blots
1989
Drawings
Material Poetics
1989
Comforter 1990
Salt Comb 1987
Dreyer Flag
1985