Phoebe Russel

Nastja Säde Rönkkö recites one poem with three narrators: a teardrop, a droplet of blood and a bead of sweat. Each tells love stories through biochemistry – about love, belonging and loss, and about crises lived and impending. The words are vivid but not enough, supercharged here by hyperreal images of landscapes both physical and emotional, and the fluids expressing and crystallising them.

A young woman named Phoebe Russell, is filmed wearing beads and a flowered dress; she gazes slightly cross-eyed at the camera, looking pretty but also increasingly melancholy as her eyes tear up. The Screen Test was one of the few shot by Gerard Malanga.