In Nicolas Roeg’s Gothic horror film Don’t Look Now (1973), a grief-stricken father mourning the death of his young daughter is haunted by a figure in a bright red jacket. While restoring a medieval church in Venice, he is tortured by flashbacks of his daughter’s drowning, eventually laying down his tools to pursue the red […]
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Sisterly forges a spiritual sisterhood between A. Lois White (1903-1984), Rosaleen Norton (1917-1979) and Jen Alexandra—three artists whose work transcends the ordinary. Born in early 20th century New Zealand, A. Lois White and Rosaleen Norton were both artists ahead of their time, whose allegorical paintings explored themes of spiritual belief and female sexuality. Their paths […]
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US artist Josh Azzarella unmakes classic films. He painstakingly extracts all signs of human presence through a frame-by-frame process of digital collage. Familiar scenes are turned into eerie, abandoned wastelands that encourage us to look beyond the content and consider the strange relationship between film, time and memory. Triple Feature brings together Azzarella’s reconstructions of […]
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