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Daria Martin (b. 1973)

Birthplace:
San Francisco, California, USA

Born:
January 1, 1973

Biography from TheMovieDB

Daria Martin’s 16mm films aim to create a continuity or parity between disparate artistic media (such as painting and performance), between people and objects, and between internal and social worlds. Human gesture and seductive imagery meet physically mannered artifice to pry loose viewers’ learned habits of perception. Mistranslation opens holes for imagination to enter or exit. Subjects such as robots, an archive of dream diaries and close-up card magic, are explored within isolated spaces such as the wings of a theatre, a military academy, or a scaled up modernist sculpture. These protective yet fragmented settings, full of seams and shadows, stand in for the capacities of the film medium itself, a permeable container that consumes and recycles the world at large.

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Film Production

Director:
2000  In the Palace
2001  Birds
2003  Closeup Gallery
2005  Soft Materials
2007  Harpstrings and Lava
2009  Minotaur
2012  Sensorium Tests
2019  Tonight the World
2023  Adults in the Room
????  Grand Attack

Writer:
2000  In the Palace
2001  Birds
2003  Closeup Gallery
2005  Soft Materials
2007  Harpstrings and Lava
2009  Minotaur
2012  Sensorium Tests
2019  Tonight the World
2023  Adults in the Room
????  Grand Attack

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