carry me up from here
B&W 16mm
IN PROGRESS
This multi-channel 16mm installation explores the practice of whole body donation, also know as anatomic gifts, and how these cadavers are disposed after medical experimentation. This piece explores how end of life rituals are disrupted and reclaimed by medical practitioners and loved ones throughout the body donation process, from death through the circuitous path toward burial.
dream trio
Color 16mm to HD video, stereo sound
Who are we when we dream? This series of vignettes explores three dreams where the narrator has switched bodies, genders, and histories with another person.
Camera, editing, text, and sound by Abigail Hendrix
music by Dominik Kalajdzic
fire warning index
Color Super 8 to to HD video, stereo sound
Shot near the artist’s childhood home, Fire Warning Index is an exploration of home - what changes, and what stays the same.
Camera, editing, text, and sound by Abigail Hendrix
Voice acting by Henry Dodds, Shay Dudok, and Catherine Provenza
SO IT IS
Color and BW 16mm to HD video, stereo sound
SO IT IS explores the uptick in traditional Catholicism among young, white Americans.
Camera, editing, text, and sound by Abigail Hendrix
Latin translations by Taryn Hendrix
Nimueh
Color and BW 16mm to HD video, 5.1 surround sound
Nimueh is a hybrid 16mm and digital experimental film that explores the local folklore and mythology surrounding the death of Hallie Latham Illingworth, whose body was found floating in Washington state’s Lake Crescent in 1937 about four years after her murder, remarkably preserved by the lake’s frigid water.
Camera, editing, text, and sound by Abigail Hendrix
Voice acting by Skylar Alley and Rita Amparita
5.1 version available upon request.
Imprints
Color 8mm and BW 16mm to HD video, 5.1 surround sound
Compiled with my own 16mm footage, 8mm found footage from the 1940s, animated mattes, and a complex soundscape including my family’s audio archives, Imprints is a fiction constructed from these apparent realities.
Camera, animation, editing, and sound by Abigail Hendrix
5.1 version available upon request.
