There Is Only This Dark

2016
Site Specific Video Projection
87’x40’
15 minute loop

There Is Only This Dark is a collaboration with sculptor JoAnna Commandaros that fills the enormous St. Gilles facade in the Hall of Architecture with projections of plaster sculptures coming to life. Using ultra-slow motion video, time is arrested and small gestures are isolated, as cracks form and bodies break free from their hardened shells.

Director: Aaron Henderson
Production Designer: JoAnna Commandaros

Performers/Painters: Benny Blanco, Nicole Hall, Allie Luther, Grace Magyar, Nina Renna, Jean-Paul Weaver
Camera Assistant: Sarah Keeling

Special Thanks: The Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences/Undergraduate Studies, the University of Pittsburgh Office of Research, Luke DuBois, Reiko Yamamoto, Nina Young, Golan Levin and the Studio for Creative Inquiry.