Total Eclipse and the Heart 

Video • 2025

The experimental video Total Eclipse and the Heart is inspired by the solar totality of 2024. During an eclipse gone wrong, characters are drawn into nature and disappear into oblivion, sinking in water and crumbling to dust. The video alternates between live action and footage generated by artificial intelligence, and includes NASA 3D models of the Moon and the Earth. Asteroids float by, the eclipse morphs from one strange version to the next, and some scenes display the point of view of mosses, lichens and fungi.
Filmed in New York, Greenland, Utah, New Mexico, and Québec.

Parts of the work were made during residencies at Harvestworks in New York,  Sporobole in Sherbrooke, La Bande Vidéo in Québec City, and Temp Files Video Co-op Season 4. Additional funding from Pace University's Scholarly Research Grant and The Amelia A Gould Research Assistantship.

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