Gayil Nalls Cycles Footage - WPA Film Library

Gayil Nalls Cycles
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	Catalog #:	492989
	Clip Number:	492989-1
	Orginal Film:	31-2801
	Timecode:
	Location:	ARTIST WORKSHOP
	Year Shot:	1986 (Actual Year)
	Audio:	Yes
	Color:	Yes
	Headings:	ART: Painting
	Description:	Program on the painter Gail Nalls, structured around footage of Nall's paintings and an interview with her. Good short segment of footage where a comet is shown traveling through space. 01:00:01 The program's precursor, "A WETA Miniature," appears set against the swirls of an abstract painting. Transitioning to another abstract painting and a bas- sculpture, the featured artist, Gayil Nalls, is shown in her studio. 01:00:35 "The programs title, "Gayil Nalls, Cycles," 01:01:07 Nalls' piece, "Adam and Eve: Life In Its Totality, ". It depicts a bleak representation of the Garden of Eden where the forbidden fruit tree has been transformed into a likeness of the devil. Adam and Eve have had their arms dismembered, and quiver as an approaching storm begins attacking their naked bodies.Nalls describes the piece. 01:01:36 Nalls continues her explanation over images of some of her work including two different sculptures depicting an exploded Statue of Liberty "The work is there not because the work is irrational or because it doesn't make sense. It is because it is the only to make sense of the world." 01:02:02 Vs of Nalls painting. 01:02:58 VS of Nalls at work on a painting intercut with a finished piece. 01:03:21 VS Nalls at work on a painting 01:03:53 The painting, "Flame Assassin In the Heart," shows a split canvas of color; used are red and orange. VS of other works as Nalls talks about them. 01:04:58 Images from space are shown. First, a representation of a large asteroid is shown as it spins through space. Second, a representation of a comet's surface; ice and vapor smolder of it. Then, a short clip of an actual comet in space is shown. Its' head is stark white and blurs into the blue of the tail. A painting Nall has made shows her impression of the connection humankind has with comets and space. 01:05:55 Nall continues with her discussion by describing the role and responsibility, she feels, artists should have.Shots of her at work in her studio. 01:06:04 Credits roll against the backdrop of one of Nall's paintings.