Christin Turner

CINEMA-19

Christin Turner, Kalpana Subramanian

A collection of 190-second short films created in response to COVID-19, commissioned by filmmakers Usama Alshaibi and Adam Sekuler.

Born to be Yves Klein Blue

Christin Turner

An improvisation, a poem, a song. Inspired by the films of Vincent Grenier, magicians, Rebecca Solnit, and "Yves Klein Speaks!"

Vesuvius at Home

Christin Turner

Christin Turner, John Romano

A fantastical cinematic journey from a woman's childhood re-enactment of a false Pompeii, through decades, decline and obsession, to the Sibyl's Cave wherein she discovers Vesuvius symbiosis with cinema, memory, and Giambattista Vico’s spiral of time.

What Happens to the Mountain

Christin Turner

A long-distance driver, a drifter, journeys from a tenuous reality into a vision of the afterlife, called forth by the spirit of the mountain.

A Dream In Red

Christin Turner

A Dream in Red (2020) is a poetic, time traveling meditation on ecological disaster via a hand processed black and white 16mm montage of people in hiding confined in an ambiguous setting and time frame. Jolting from the temporal to the primal experience of the unknown, gradual cues subtly suggest that the setting is Pompeii during the volcanic eruption (as represented in 35mm nitrate film of Vesuvius' most recent eruption in 1944). In the aftermath, a woman without sight feels her way to an uncertain future. Non-binary composer Cee Haines' music project C H A I N E S accompanies the visual work with a dynamic, modular score using live musicians and electronics.