Melody Woodnutt

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     Celestial Bodies
The Ship
16mm films
Tropical Gothic
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Past Work (selected/partial)

The Symposium
Collapse
Blind Coven
Vibraphones
The Raven
Apathy and Wonder
Sex, Space, Intimacy
The Last Century Was About History, The Next Will Be About Belief 
Objects




Ongoing Project

The Weight of Mountains


Archived Work
2008 - 2018
(under construction) 

Installations
Sound pieces
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Curatorial
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Festivals
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Art Direction for film




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   Artist Film Workshop

   Nanolab

   Law and the Senses

   The Esoteric Travel Writing Research Group

   

Celestial Bodies
Street projection, 3 channels






A new series which ties together the sea and the cosmos as vast bodies that never touch. It is a poetic attempt to embrace glittering spectral bodies; at once our own and all else born of dead stars.
This work also includes a 16mm short film and an accompanying poem:

An ascension and sinking, swells
conjured between the divine


and the dark. The Two together apart


are a Sisyphean attempt
bigger than your house,
to posthumously finish building


a 55 foot skeleton, a boat frame.


Here, Fata Morgana breathes.
Due diction, a spectral fiction starts


in a ship's absence and ruin.
Atmospheres and celestial bodies never touch


the sea, but they swallow the vessel.


-Melody Woodnutt





Melody Woodnutt
Your Rotation
Digital 16mm still frame, 2023.






Melody Woodnutt
Disco Fingers
Archival pigment print from 16mm still frame, 2023.






Melody Woodnutt
Pink Moon
Archival pigment print from 16mm still frame, 2021.