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

ALL CONTENTS © 2016 JAYNE AMARA ROSS

WASTE (2017)

ESSAY FILM / 6' / DIGITAL VIDEO + ANALOGUE AND ARCHIVAL PHOTOGRAPHS / ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK BY KURO

ARCHIVAL IMAGES COURTESY OF LJÓSMYNDASAFU SKAGASTRANDAR.


IN THE NORSE COSMOGONY, THE FINITE WORLD IS CREATED FROM THE DISMEMBERED BODY OF THE PRIMORDIAL GIANT, YMIR, PERFECTLY PORTIONED OUT TO FULFIL ITS SUBLUNARY FUNCTION. SET TO A VISUAL SCORE THAT EMPLOYS ARCHIVAL MATERIAL TO TRACE THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMMERCIAL FISHING IN SKAGASTRÖND, NORTHERN ICELAND, WASTE IS A MEDITATION ON OVER-CONSUMPTION, AND PENURY, AND THE DEVASTATING VIOLENCE OF OUR DISPROPORTIONATE HUNGERS.
Jayne Amara Ross