JAYNE AMARA ROSS

JAYNE AMARA ROSS

SHORT FILMS
CHUM
LIKE KINTSUGI
DESERET
WASTE

THE FREEMARTIN CALF

LIVE / INSTALLATIONS
​GINNUNGAGAP YAWNING VOID
PERSEPHONE II
THE GOLDEN HOUSE
PERSEPHONE

AS TRUE AS TROILUS
THE WOMAN WITH THE SEVERED SIDE
FAREWELL POETRY


POETRY
SELECTED POEMS
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ABOUT
BIO / CONTACT
CV
​PRESS

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PERSEPHONE: A SOFT-CORPSE (WOULD BE) COMFORT

PERFORMANCE FILM FOR TWO SUPER 8 PROJECTORS / 9' / HAND-PROCESSED SUPER 8 / ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK BY FAREWELL POETRY / WITH NICK ALLDRIDGE & VÉRONIQUE THIREAU / WATCH TRAILER

PERSEPHONE BELONGED TO HER MOTHER DEMETER BEFORE SHE WAS RAVISHED BY HADES, HER HUSBAND-TO-BE. THEN ENSUED A TUG-OF-WAR TO CLAIM OWNERSHIP OF THE GIRL, MEDIATED BY HER FATHER, ZEUS. IN THE SAME, CONFUSED FOREST CLEARING, PERSEPHONE IS THE IMAGE OF OBJECTIFIED GIRLHOOD, SIMULTANEOUSLY DISROBED FROM SOIL BY HER HUSBAND AND TUCKED BACK INTO THE EARTH BY HER MOTHER.