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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.

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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. This release unfolds through moments of tension and imbalance, bringing the body to the edge, as inner and outer conditions shift and give way to a space not yet defined.

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​Filmed entirely 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. 

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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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