Movies: Sally Lawton

​A documentation of parades and protests during the first months of Donald Trumps presidential campaign. The speed at which nationalism moves is explored through manipulated frame rates, blurs, and overlays....

The Red Tide follows a life changing move to Florida. Exploring a new home located near famous earthworks by Robert Smithson, the enormous art collection-turned-museum of John Ringling, and beaches plagued by a toxic phenomenon called the ‘red tide’....

Glimpses of Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights (1495) are repainted through a VHS video mixing board....

What affects me most powerfully: mourning in layers – a kind of sclerosis. Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary Inspired by Roland Barthes’ Mourning Diary, the film attempts to measure grief and consciousness in the pandemic through images and monthly r...

"Poetry is in opposition to the truth of the myth" Laura Riding Jackson, ​ This film is inspired by Laura Riding Jackson’s idea that poetry is the only discourse that can transcend myth, but will also always come up against a limitation in language...

A collage of signs, creditor voicemails, and travelogues. A attempt to vacation at work and work on vacation. ​...

The relationship between the decline of industry and the cycles of addiction are examined....

"This film is a collaborative installation project with Orleans + Winder (Detroit). It examines Nathaniel Dorsky’s writings on Self-Symbols in film as applied to the exhibition and personalization of clothing. Dorsky writes: If you have ever looked a...

A meditation on how women traverse their own bodies, through pregnancy and the desire to be pregnant. In documenting corporeal passivity and gestures of desire, questions arise—at what stages do we recognize pregnancy and how do women’s bodies come t...

An experimental documentary charting the relationship of five Ukrainians and one Ukrainian American to the 2014 revolution and preceding war. The film is shot over the central and western regions of Ukraine, immediately post-revolution. Six figures ...

A diary of Christmas in Yosemite National Park. Coastal secrets and transcendental filters fill the frame....