The Painting

(2023) 9 minutes

The Painting is a film about the need for something greater than ourselves. In this case religion, or the iconography of Jesus Christ. As a non religious person it's very interesting to me how religion can become an (blind) obsession. The film started out by me finding the painting of Jesus hanging in a tree on the exact location where I later shot the film. I had used this painting before in an earlier work, Dig. Even then I could tell it had been there for a long time, it felt lost and forgotten. I began to wonder how it had gotten there and who it belonged to. The film is in a way a fantasy on the life and journey of this painting.