Christin Turner
Directing
Known For

A collection of 190-second short films created in response to COVID-19, commissioned by filmmakers Usama Alshaibi and Adam Sekuler.
CINEMA-19

A long-distance driver, a drifter, journeys from a tenuous reality into a vision of the afterlife, called forth by the spirit of the mountain.
What Happens to the Mountain

An improvisation, a poem, a song. Inspired by the films of Vincent Grenier, magicians, Rebecca Solnit, and "Yves Klein Speaks!"
Born to be Yves Klein Blue

A Dream in Red (2020) is a poetic, time traveling meditation on ecological disaster via a hand processed black and white 16mm montage of people in hiding confined in an ambiguous setting and time frame. Jolting from the temporal to the primal experience of the unknown, gradual cues subtly suggest that the setting is Pompeii during the volcanic eruption (as represented in 35mm nitrate film of Vesuvius' most recent eruption in 1944). In the aftermath, a woman without sight feels her way to an uncertain future. Non-binary composer Cee Haines' music project C H A I N E S accompanies the visual work with a dynamic, modular score using live musicians and electronics.
A Dream In Red

A fantastical cinematic journey from a woman's childhood re-enactment of a false Pompeii, through decades, decline and obsession, to the Sibyl's Cave wherein she discovers Vesuvius symbiosis with cinema, memory, and Giambattista Vico’s spiral of time.
Vesuvius at Home

Winds of change turn the Wheel of Fortune in Tularosa, New Mexico. Downwind from the atomic bomb site, a man has built a Buddhist shrine to counterbalance the vortex of power and destruction, with a flower in his pocket.
Land Rebel

Photographer Brice Bischoff's psychedelic photographs explore time, space, and the history of the moving image in one of the most famous locations in Los Angles California: The Bronson Caves.
Brice Bischoff: Bronson Caves

The eruption of the artificial volcano on the rock island "Stein" in Wörlitzer Park in Wörlitz.
Vesuvius in Germany
Working with performance artist Leonor Beutler, Christin Turner (who received her MFA from the University of Colorado Boulder) wades into the shamanistic rituals that coincide with our understanding of time as expressed in the natural world.