MARIA is Nina Danino’s 5th feature length film and a sister film to the recent SOLITUDE (2022) with Nico (Velvet Underground) as icon, screen and poet. The two films form a diptych about powerful iconic women building on Nina Danino’s longterm artistic practice exploring the voice and religious iconography.
Key ideas: Inscription-monologue, transfiguration – a change that glorifies, longing, a lone wolf, bravura, whistles. Intertitles: Iconostasis, Thumos, Catharsis, the Greek Orthodox Death prayers ending with the Trisagion, Père Lachaise, The Dead Brakhage, MEDEA by Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Doors. Notes ND. 24.1. 22
Read an interview with Nina Danino on MARIA on the LUX website
