Naissance des étoiles #2

A long term project (2008-2016) that makes use of the optic and mechanic possibilities of analog cinema and its intersection with alchemy. In the leading role: the water.

Filmed along the border between Argentina and Chile, "Desert Series II – Payogasta" is the next chapter in Price's luscious landscape project, "Sea Series" (2008-2016). Price makes use of the optical and mechanical possibilities of analog cinema, and the incredible landscape of the Andean mountains to create alchemical spells that swirl across the screen. Desert Series II – Payogasta is one of a few new films created by this celebrated avant-garde filmmaker, as part of Media City Film Festival's Underground Mines project.

Seething grain and swirling textures of Super 8 processed in a pail. Film as memory ... an elaborate reconstruction perpetually shifting through the course of time. And so is this ... a personal recollection of the intensity of what it may have been like to be a child.

Yes, I contemplate the sea, what else is there to do?…to look at the sea is to become what one is. – Etel Adnan, “Of Cities & Women (Letters to Fawwaz)”

A response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster, "sea series #10" was shot at Beachfront Park near the Pickering nuclear generating station in Ontario, Canada and processed in part with water derived from the lake.

Hand processed 35mm portrait of Michael Snow.

Views from the sea.