Gorge, 2025
Digital video
Duration 5min 26sec
In Gorge, a brief sequence from Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 film Persona is flipped and elongated, exposing the frame-by-frame anatomy of the celluloid film strip—a physical texture predating the digital era. The accompanying audio features a quote from Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain (2008), read by the artist.
By reversing the subtitles that interpret the stretched sound, the artist creates a split perspective that serves as a visual and auditory counterpoint. The work seeks to move beyond traditional narrative, using a ‘counter-fiction’ to turn the viewer’s attention toward the visceral nature of existence. This project represents their first formal experiment with film-as-material, fulfilling a long-held ambition first outlined in their FILMOGRAPHY FOR A PRACTICE.
Gorge, 2025 is the artists second time working with Persona in relation to mountains. The first was in 2016, in a short essay film made from a collage of still and moving scenes that jumped between silence and sound, which mirrored a disjuncture that she faced within her practice, when trying to build a mountain out of hundreds of baking tins that kept collapsing and consuming her.