What’s At the Bottom, 2022, 11:20 min.

What's At the Bottom, 2022, 11:10min
Super 8 Film/ Digital Animation
A Film By Liz Rosenfeld Original Voiceover
By Jón Albert Méndez

" Where do you see holes.... how do you feel about them?" In a quiet and contemplative short filmic work, Liz Rosenfeld asked artist Jón Albert Méndez to re- call the one summer evening, when they happen to meet each in Reykjavik. As Jón beautifully recalls the few hours that the two artists spent together, Jón dives deep into connections between holes, emotional ecologies, bodies, and gender. As Jón meditates on holes, the camera scans different Icelandic landscapes, in search of all the holes: ancient laval fields, ocean inlets, the peaks of fjords, and the midnight sun. Shot on Super 8 film in the Summer of 2021 while serving as an artist in residence at GilsfjordurArts, situated deep within the Westfjords, Rosenfeld draws over the skin of film, animating their "hole drawing technique," which they developed while in residence.

This film was made with support from the Goethe Institut in frame of their cultural initiative Goethe Morph* Iceland.