60mm film installation
It consists of two 30 minute film loops with sound.
Crazy Jane and the Torrent Man consisted of two large rear projected screens 10 feet high and 16 feet wide. The screens were placed parallel to each other 4 feet apart forming a corridor like space within the gallery.
To experience the piece the viewer had to stand between the two screens and could only look at one screen at a time. There was no position from which one could step back and view the whole piece from some vantage point outside of it. The piece articulates a metaphysical or philosophical dilemma about having to choose between being inside something or being outside watching it, between living life or observing it.
My intention in this piece was to maintain the integrity of two different parallel realities so that the synthesis or the edit would be completed by and would occur in the viewer.
The architectural, physical space can be read as an embodied metaphor. It is a metaphor concerned with Western constructions of nature and culture within the imaginary space of film.