LIKE BLOOD FROM A STONE
2025 | BW Super 8 | 7'18"
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Perhaps what we perceive as everlasting harbors its own expiration, rotting in ways that transcend human understanding. Just as a static painting can mutate and stretch into a film, Like Blood From a Stone suggests that death and decay may not signify an ending, but rather a shift from one state of matter to another.
In part a (re)enactment and extension of The Wounded Angel (1903), a painting by artist Hugo Simberg, Like Blood From a Stone charts the procession of a wounded angel, carried up Mont Royal by two pallbearers. Spliced together with imagery of stone statues—flesh, tears, angel wings—in varying states of deterioration.
The celestial score by Alex Potter sets a mood of bitter-sweet transformation, interrupted by the angelic timelessness of Bach’s Cantata #140, a sonic world that heralds mourning laced with the joy of change.