Salt Crystals Spiral Jetty Dead Sea Five Year Film
20131m
- Runtime
- 1m
- Origin
- United States of America
About
Geological elements and erosion leave marks on a strip of 70mm film that floated in the Dead Sea and soaked in clay before getting stuffed in a suitcase to be brought back to Los Angeles, where it was submerged and sat in buckets filled with mud and salt for years in the artist’s studio. After five years, Jennifer West dragged the film along the mud and salt crystal encrusted spiral of Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty before throwing it in the icy pink waters of Utah’s Great Salt Lake—the film’s frames were then digitally photographed and re-stitched together. Through material traces of mud, salt crystals and sand, distant places and layered temporalities flicker across a film that lasts less than one minute.
Where to watch
Not available to stream in United States yet.
Details
- Director
- Jennifer West
- Status
- Released
- Released
- Dec 1, 2013
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