VIDEOS in the Series

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WIDOW | NIGHT 

2022, 4:12 min., color, sound, HD video

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Widow|Night is a performative, expressive, outward mourning. It is a dreamlike portrayal of a woman displaced in the marketplace and so overcome by grief that her private reality is made public. 

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WIDOW-ECLIPSE (3 channel)

2021, 4:37 min., color, sound, HD video

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Shot in one take, Widow Eclipse features a woman lying motionless on red, volcanic gravel as a handheld camera scans her body. The generating event of her predicament occurred before the film time—inviting spectators to free associate about the mystery of her plight, as well as one's own temporality. 

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WIDOW'S REVENGE

2021, 60 seconds, color, sound, HD video

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Widow's Revenge is a 60 second short that uses the mirror effect to create a hallucinatory scene of joyous fury as a woman dramatically whips a flowing train of black fabric towards the eye of the camera.

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WIDOW’S END (split screen & 2 channel)

2020, 4:42 & 4:44 min., color, sound, HD video

 

The perils of isolation and climate instability meet in this split screen/2 channel video set against the backdrop of a volcanic red rock quarry in southern Iceland. Caught in an extreme, inhospitable landscape, a bereaved woman finds herself enveloped in a swath of black fabric. The intensity of her stillness combines with a stark sound score to form a slowly shifting visual tableaux that explores the terrain where inner and outer realities collide.

 

WIDOW’S WALK

2019, 6:31 min., color, sound, HD video 

 

Shot in southern Iceland, Widow’s Walk portrays the Widow character as fated with the Sisyphean task of walking up and down a desolate hill in an effort to conquer her grief. Her existential dilemma is further destabilized by troubling memories and a precarious future.

 

VIGIL

2019, 3:44 min., color, sound, HD video

 

Vigil features a nameless woman slowly crossing an undefined, stark landscape. Extending from her dress, a trail of cloth symbolic of her mourning blows in the wind as she moves through a deserted space offering no markers of time or place. Her stillness combines with a haunting electronic sound score—inviting the spectator to drift with her through a quasi-apocalyptic world.

 

WIDOW | GHOSTS 

2017, 3:09 min., color, sound, HD video 

 

In WIDOW | GHOSTS a woman reminiscent of classic Hollywood cinema walks through the crowds of present day Times Square. As she seductively approaches the camera, past and present merge in an eerie meditation on displacement, identity, and the transience of life.

 

WW

2017, 7:25 min., color, sound, HD video

 

WW is a psychedelic, sci-fi voyage into the darker recesses of consciousness. With its surrealist use of artifice and doubling, the video combines abstracted imagery with footage of a woman performing a sequence of precisely choreographed movements. This juxtaposition of the abstract and the symbolic merges with a pulsating electronic score to create an unsettling investigation of the cataclysmic forces that underlie birth and death.

 

DESERT WIDOW

2014, 10:48 min., color, sound, HD video

 

Desert Widow is part performance documentation, part photographic cinematography. It features a woman driven into a vast landscape by forces beyond her control. As she traverses the shifting desert topography she performs a sequence of ritualized actions. Day and night converge, as do land and water, creating a subtle yet dramatic interplay between light, movement, music, silence, and stillness. Through this melding of the pictorial with the performative, Desert Widow is a meditation on loss and renewal.

 

WIDOW_remix

2016, 6:59 min., color, sound, HD video

 

WIDOW_remix is a re-make of the original work in this series. Exploring the intersection of domesticity and femininity, remix traces the actions of a woman absorbed within a claustrophobic space as she confronts past trauma. With its cut-up, chaotic edit, the video abandons the choreographic structure of the original performance-video, inviting viewers to merge with the protagonist’s unrestrained, emotive experience hovering on the edge of pleasure and pain.

 

WIDOW

2013, 11:55 min., color, sound, HD video

 

Widow is a video-performance based on a site-specific work created for the iconic, futuristic hallway at 3LD Center for Art and Technology in New York City. The narrow, runway-like structure of the architecture not only dictates the trajectory of the protagonist's movement, but further encapsulates her within her confined universe. Suspenseful stillness, sharp gestures, and emotional extremes combine in an audio-visual dissection of the female psyche.