Heliotrope

Synopsis

A subterranean unravelling, as seeds fall to the ground with nowhere to land. The only witness is blindfolded, and she too falls at some point. The underground factory operates day and night as the burrowing continues, in a long, slow attempt to fabricate something that could actually make itself. A delicate collage film full of poetry and mystery.

Biography and Films

Janie Geiser is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes film, performance and installation. Her work is known for its recontextualisation of abandoned images and objects, its embrace of artifice and its investigation of memory, power and loss. Her films have been presented at MoMA, LACMA, Whitney Museum, Centre Pompidou, Strasbourg Museum, NY Film Festival and Rotterdam, among others. Her short film Arbor was screened at l'Alternativa in 2013.