Mary Helena Clark

A walk through corridors and rooms culminates in a familial Reiki session – what’s underneath and within. Zero Length Spring is an...

A visual essay about the progressive tradition of the United States as seen through grave markers and monuments.

For Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch, Ana Vaz invited artists and filmmakers whose work trust cinema’s capacity to transform...

Diaristic but also generously expansive, Mary-Helena Clark's disarmingly raw and beautiful The Dragon is the Frame proceeds like an experimental...

Experimental short about a man and some trees.

Pivoting between two stories of women and their relationships with objects—a Swedish woman’s marriage to the Berlin Wall, and a...

Musical and mysterious, Mary Helena Clark’s Palms is a modular, sphinx-like film in four parts, comprised of two hands animating stillness, the...

An impressionist sea ponders the movements of creatures, seeing them in its dreams like dots swimming on its surface, carried along by the waves that...

Scraps of text gathered from molding filmstrips and peeling chalkboards are photographed and intercut with pinhole shots from a schoolhouse.

We ape naturalism.

“Henry James had his figure in the carpet, Da Vinci found faces on the wall. Within this Baltimore wallpaper: a floral forest of hidden depth...

A walk through the proscenium wings. You close your eyes and suddenly it is dark.

“Using footage from Cocteau’s Orphée, Clark optically prints an interstitial space where the ghosts of cinema lurk beyond and...

A spy film, built on the bad geometry of point-of-view shots.

An interconnected look at tradition, colonialism, property, faith, and science, as seen through labor practices that link an endangered salamander,...

An interconnected look at tradition, colonialism, property, faith, and science, as seen through labor practices that link an endangered salamander,...

An interconnected look at tradition, colonialism, property, faith, and science, as seen through labor practices that link an endangered salamander,...

An interconnected look at tradition, colonialism, property, faith, and science, as seen through labor practices that link an endangered salamander,...

The title piece is a two-channel video centered on the mouth – as a tool to bite and chew, as an instrument of speech, and as a site of disgust...

By testing the limits of identification with the camera’s point of view, Delphi Falls cycles through multiple subjectivities. The film misuses...

An interconnected look at tradition, colonialism, property, faith, and science, as seen through labor practices that link an endangered salamander,...

In this elliptical audiovisual diary, cinema’s extrasensory capacity is given surprising form. Here, what we see (the human throat, Gothic...

In day-for-night blue and hunting camera night vision, darkness is replicated and punctured. Looking finds bodies in the dark, at the threshold of...