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.
2-MINUTE TRAILER
DRAWINGS
Chair at Sea (for Mike Kelley), 2016 Pencil on paper, 22" x 27"
R H 2014-15, collage on paper, 11" x 16"
Super 8 2001, watercolor/ink/charcoal on paper, each 11" x 16"
Faces in the Grain 1993,Graphite on paper
The same image of birds-eye maple drawn twice with added features of faces
Backgrounds
1986, Charcoal on paper, 11" x 16" Called "backgrounds" since they have no subject—inspired by James Welling's photography at the time.
Charcoal on paper, 11" x 16"
Installation view, Piezo Electric Gallery 1986. Approximately 70 drawings.
Spirals 1988, Charcoal on paper, 22" x 22"
1980s Drawings
Dad, 1980s charcoal on paper 24" x 30"
The Cook, 1980s, charcoal on paper 24" x 30"
