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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SINGULAR OBJECTS
Cry Baby 1996, Polyurethane foam/wire/wood/lens, 14" x 12" x 5"
Mexican Billboards
Mexican Billboard (Mujeres), 2011 14" x 8" x 1.8" Sticks, newspaper, mixed media
Mexican Billboard (Azul), 2011, 14" x 8" x 1.8" Sticks, newspaper, mixed media
Mexican Billboard (Not Seen), 2012, 14" x 8" x 1.8" Collaboration with Jeffery Vallance for SASSAS benefit auction
Lump, 1996, Self-skinning flexible foam, 18". Based on Chinese Scholar's rocks.
Canyon, 1998, Plastecine on table with model sets
Color Studies, 1999, mixed media
Nose, 1989, paper pulp, alabaster, string
Tar Star, 1988, Stainless steel, asphalt, glass, 36"x 3"
Catholic Object, 1987 wood and metal, 6' x 3'