POINT AND LINE TO PLANE
Life changes fast.
Life changes in an instant.
You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
- Joan Didion, “The Year of Magical Thinking”
After loss comes the void. This is where we find Audrey (Deragh Campbell), a woman drenched in grief, asking objects around her for coincidence and comfort. Immersed in a state of profound mourning, her perception seems to be deceitful and is suddenly enhanced. Meanings start to appear from every corner of experience and, through the works of Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky, she starts feeling a true connection with those who are now gone. Colour and texture begin to speak. Is it a process of magical thinking? Or are paintings really a portal between worlds? Point and Line to Plane is more of a movement than meditation, it is a materialization of the sensorial nature of sorrow.
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Written by Lucía Salas
Available to watch on The Criterion Channel and DAFilms.
Produced by Calvin Thomas
Starring Deragh Campbell
2020/17 min / Canada / English / 1:78.1
FID Marseille, Marseille, France, 2020
Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2020
New York Film Festival, New York City, USA, 2020
Festival de nouveau cinéma, Montréal, Canada, 2020
Sheffield Doc/Fest, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 2020
Black Canvas Film Festival, Mexico City, Mexico, 2020
The Viennale, Vienna, Austria, 2020
Antofacine International Film Festival, Santiago, Chile, 2020
Festival dei Popoli, Florence, Italy, 2020
Le Centre Pompidou, Cahiers du Cinéma: Le Cinéma comme il va, Paris, France, 2020
Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Winterthur, Switzerland, 2020
Petrohradská Kolektiv, Prague, Czech Republic, 2021
Punto de Vista, Pamplona, Spain, 2022
Jeu de Paume, Paris, France, 2023
ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, U.K., 2023
Art Collections:
Frac Institution des beaux arts
Winner:
Best International Short Film, Antofacine International Film Festival, Santiago, Chile, 2020
Band à Part Short Film Award, Las Palmas Gran Canaria, Spain, 2021
The Edge Shorts Competition Winner, Nashville Film Festival, USA, 2021