ALMA
2017•9m•9.0•Released
DocumentaryMysteryHistoryMusicRomanceFamily
A non-narrative short film tracking the movement of a flock of women through a megalithic landscape. They appear to be working, enacting a cryptic ceremony with a sense of calm & purposeful labor. A score weaving together their breath & hums with sounds collected from the landscape: wind, Rattlesnake grass & their hands rubbing against stone. The women's gestures come from both work & dance – evoking the strange overlap between labor & ritual. This film began as a response to the physicality of daily life as a mother & the rhythm of these acts; the relentless repetition of parenting, working, tending the world with our bodies. This repetition can easily become vacant labor, but it can also transform into a kind of meditative, even transcendent ritual, a collective communion with the landscape & each other. ALMA offers itself as a companion piece to McKenna’s photographic rubbings, a glimpse into the same world from where her art arises.
Director
Klea McKenna
Cast
Ali True
Belle Bueti
Angela Hennessey
Kim Pierce
Kathleen Harrison
Jessica Niello
Hayden Shiebler
Mojdeh Mansoori
Nicole Zvarik
Steffi Morrison
Sarah Gagnon
Leah Rosenberg
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