Painting Cathedral Rock

Part painting, part performance, part film, Painting Cathedral Rock is a quiet meditation on the unstable edges of vision, cinematic spectacle, and subjectivity. A silhouetted figure washes, cleans, and paints the iconic view of Cathedral Rock in Sedona, Arizona—a sacred Indigenous site and popular tourist destination. Ambiguous, shifting references emerge from the cinematic and spiritual to climate change and landscape painting—inviting an open-ended, ritualistic encounter and heightened looking beyond the squares of our current screens.

Directed by Mel Day (USA)