ALMA

Name: ALMA
Released: 2017-11-11T00:00:00.000000Z
Rating: 9.0

2017 • 9 min • ★ 9.0 (1) • Released

Documentary Family History Music Mystery Romance

A non-narrative short film tracking the movement of a flock of women through a megalithic landscape. They appear to be working, enacting a cryptic ceremony with a sense of calm & purposeful labor. A score weaving together their breath & hums with sounds collected from the landscape: wind, Rattlesnake grass & their hands rubbing against stone. The women's gestures come from both work & dance – evoking the strange overlap between labor & ritual. This film began as a response to the physicality of daily life as a mother & the rhythm of these acts; the relentless repetition of parenting, working, tending the world with our bodies. This repetition can easily become vacant labor, but it can also transform into a kind of meditative, even transcendent ritual, a collective communion with the landscape & each other. ALMA offers itself as a companion piece to McKenna’s photographic rubbings, a glimpse into the same world from where her art arises.

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Original title: ALMA
Language: EN
Country: US
Budget: —
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Keywords 19

bewildered curious dance dance ritual enchant familiar gesture grand meditative motherhood mysterious non-narrative nostalgic photography ritual serene serious sincere unassuming

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