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TIGERS, 2010
FROM SILENCE, 2010
BREATHING OUT, 2010
THE BEST THING, 2011
THE CAT AWOKE, 2011
BURGUNDY STAIN, 2011
AFTERMATH, 2012
ANGEL'S SHARE, 2012
HURRICANE, 2012
CASTLES, 2014
MEMORIZE, 2014
“My mother died March 17, 2009 and, in the following months, I woke each dawn to photograph the sunrise. She’d been an early riser and I clung to this shared gesture for comfort. Thomas Bartlett and I were just becoming friends, and when he released the 2009 Doveman album, The Conformist, I responded to his intimate arrangements and spare lyrics. Over the next four years, My Silent One accumulated – a discrete film for each of his eleven studio tracks. The Conformist captures the quicksilver shifts of the heart from breathless young love to the wounds of a broken relationship. My challenge was to find visual and rhythmic corollaries that reinterpreted the songs, which become, in my series of films, a meditation on time and ultimately death. The imagery spans 27 years and is populated by the people I’ve known and loved – some living, some dead. The elegy extends to the medium. In the last of these years, my once commonplace super-8 camera was rapidly being turned into a nostalgic artifact by high-resolution cameras, and Kodachrome, with its lush palette and grain, had already been lost to the market forever."
TOM KALIN