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ANCHOR POINT

Single channel video

3:39 minuets

A lone figure drifts between two endless terrains — the desert and the sea.

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Anchor Point moves through a process shaped by a sudden shift, unfolding across the landscapes of nature and the psyche.

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Still from the video Anchor Point

Project Statement

Anchor Point is an experimental video work that follows a lone figure moving between two bare and endless terrains — the desert and the sea — which unfold as psychological and perceptual fields.

 

Filmed in live-action within natural environments, the work takes shape through a direct encounter between human presence and the shifting conditions of light, wind, and landscape. The use of real landscapes — not as backdrop but as active, dynamic presence — has helped co-create the work's final form, suggesting subtle parallels between the rhythms of nature and those of human nature. Its slow-motion pace and oceanic soundscape open a contemplative space, while the work remains open to varied personal interpretation.

 

The vast landscapes in the work serve as metaphoric registers for inner psychological states — with cliffs of fear, open expanses of solitude, and currents of emotional turbulence. The work reflects an inquiry into the difficulty of releasing structures one has grown accustomed to — a place, a position, an object, or, more deeply, a pattern of thought, habit, or worldview. Their release gives way to a space not yet defined. 

 

While the tension the protagonist experiences between the desert and the sea mirrors a dichotomous worldview, the work dissolves the boundary between the two landscapes — highlighting their contrasts and their points of convergence.

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Exhibitions

2024            

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2023            

World Water Film Festival, New York, New York, USA 

Verci Di Luce Film Festival, Ceglie Messapica, Italy 

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"Hard Times", Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA, USA

"RSA Annual Exhibition #197", Royal Scottish Academy of Art, Edinburgh

Mindful Pictures Film Festival, The Garden Cinema, London 

The Jane Austen Film Festival, The Little Theatre, Bath, England (Award: Best Experimental Film)

Mosaic World Film Festival, Nordlof Theatre, Rockford, Illinois, USA 

International Underwater Film Festival Belgrade, Serbia 

"The Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition #141", Royal Ulster Museum, Belfast 

© Dafna Tal 2025

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