CORN MOTHER
ABOUT
A single cartridge of Super 8 captures my mothers last visit to her garden. Her body is seen slowly dissolving towards illumination, while her image is forever immortalized in light and silver. Poem borrowed from the Penobscot creation history, The Corn and Tobacco Mother.
Taylor Dunne is a filmmaker, curator and educator. She has an affinity for photographic processes, amateur film, the personal archive and the history of the cinematic apparatus. Her works have been exhibited at venues that include; the New York Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festival, Crossroads Film and Video Festival (San Francisco), FOL: Experimental Film Society (Istanbul), EXDOC (Paris) and The Deluge Center for Contemporary Art (Victoria, BC). She has curated film screenings for The Black Cube Artist Program, Experiments in Cinema Film Festival (Albuquerque) and Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image. Currently she an Assistant Professor in the Film Studies Department at Keene State College.