Gorge, 2024
2min 42sec
Digital video
This is my second time working with Ingmar Bergman’s film ‘Persona’ in relation to mountains. The first was in 2016, in a short essay film, which I made from a collage of still and moving scenes taken from the film. These jumped between silence and sound and mirrored the disjuncture that I faced in my practice, when I was trying to, bizarrely, build a mountain out of hundreds of baking tins, which inevitably kept collapsing.
On this occasion I’ve flipped the film upside down and stretched several seconds of Bergman’s film over minutes, creating a series of physical jumps. Without dropping any spoilers, Bergman’s next scene also plays on the word gorge, but not in relation to mountains, more so, an act of survival.