AFTER THE ICE, THE DELUGE: film

The film is constituted of Super 8; VHS, iPhone and 16mm film footage and performance documentation shot in the Arctic Circle on a 2019 research trip; as well as archival 16mm ​‘nature’ documentaries.

It was commissioned by Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery by supported by the House Fund for Distinguished Visiting Artists and Critics; ACE, and A-N Network. 

SCREENINGS: 

SQIFF (Scottish Queer International Film Festival), Glasgow 2021

SENTIENT ENCOUNTERS, Inhale—Hold—Exhale Sentient Encounters film night on queerness,  AKI Auditorium, Enschede, 2022

An Alarming Specificity, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, 2020

An Tobar Festival: Daughter of Cups in the North,  Isle of Mull, 2022

SHOUT Festival Showcase, Queer World (-ings),  IKON Gallery, 2021

Earlier 16mm iterations:

Something III be Scared of at No.w.here, London, 2018

ORGASMIC STREAMING ORGANIC GARDENING ELECTROCULTURE, Lux London, 2018

Here, the aging film’s scarring and damage manifest as a sympathetic magic which parallels that of the landscape it holds. Rather than the temporality of this demise feeling inescapably horrific, Stupart opens up the potential of transmogrification, the melted remains of the polar ice caps entering into traumatized bodies in the form of nano-particles, as a form of time travel, with the glaciers becoming a part of us, merging past, present, and future.

--  Aubree Penney

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