Video/Film
Flickerings
By Rachel Blythe Udell and Jeremy Newman
Music by Rachel Blythe Udell
Portal
2024
By Rachel Blythe Udell and Jeremy Newman
Music by Rachel Blythe Udell
A video by Jeremy Newman and Rachel Blythe Udell. Art and music by Rachel Blythe Udell. "Portal" is a short experimental film composed of three vignettes. Each part represents a world visited by explorers seeking a new home. Light, color, energy and texture inform these worlds. Fibrous sculptures and natural elements form dense landscapes rich with the promise of life. The visitors, reminiscent of neurons, dance and frolic across the colorful terrain. They are curious and mystical. They revel in delight. But they encounter obstacles and knotty predicaments. The landscapes transform in response to the explorers, with strange and ominous reverberations. There are links between these fantastical worlds and ours: the beauty and wonder of curiosity, the beneficial and portentous prospects of change, the cycles of destruction and rebirth.
We Can Never Go Back
2023
By Rachel Blythe Udell
Music by Rachel Blythe Udell
A woman’s time spent in her garden transports her to a dreamlike state in which the beauty of nature blends with her art, and becomes a place of refuge and solace. The film represents her consciousness, how she thinks and feels about her art, love, a feeling of belonging and connectedness, and how making art helps her to cope with grief and loss. As she tends her garden, time contracts and expands, the past and present collapse. She is suffused in the glow of her beloved pets who have now departed this realm, and in the garden she was forced to leave.
SOLIPSISM
2023
By Rachel Blythe Udell
Music by Rachel Blythe Udell
This film explores a woman’s preoccupation with herself physically, emotionally, and philosophically, and her inability to escape either herself or her image. Filmed in 1998 on Super8 film, then digitized and set to music in 2023.