Catalogue > Un extrait vidéo au hasard

A cockroach, a woman, a dramatic encounter in a closet—from the roach's point of view. This is the finale of the Catalogue film series. The piece was inspired by The Passion According to G.H. (1964) by Clarice Lispector, who was a Brazilian novelist of the 60's, a favorite of the French theorist Hélène Cixous. Lispector's novel, The Passion According to G.H., describes at its climax a moment of fellow-theorist and feminist Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection, where the inside crosses the boundary to the outside (the insides of the smashed roach ooze out) and cross another boundary when the woman puts the viscera into her mouth.

Dana Berman Duff’s artworks are included in museum collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), the New Museum of Contemporary Art (NYC) and private collections. In 2019 her large multi-channel video installation titled "What Does She See When She Shuts Her Eyes" (in collaboration with Sabina Ott) was mounted at Aspect Ratio in Chicago and Alchemy Moving Image Festival in Scotland. Works in small format film and video have been screened in numerous festivals including the Toronto IFF, IFF Rotterdam, the Biennale de L’Image en Mouvement (Geneva), Edinburgh IFF, ExIS (Seoul), FIDMarseille, Antimatter Festival, Alchemy Film Festival (Scotland), Experiments in Cinema (Albuquerque), Rencontres (Paris/Berlin), Bideodromo (Bilbao), Dortmund/Cologne International Women’s Film Festival, SF Cinematheque, REDCAT (Los Angeles), FIDMarseille Film Festival 2020 (A POTENTIALITY awarded Alice Guy Special Mention), and many others. Duff was named a 2020-2021Cultural Trailblazer by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and a retrospective of her short films is scheduled in Los Angeles for spring 2021 at REDCAT in Los Angeles. She taught art and experimental film at several colleges and universities including NYU, Bennington, UCLA, Art Center Pasadena, and for many years at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.