“From Dusk to Dawn” focuses on embodied descriptions of lightness and darkness, experienced by someone who undergoes various medical procedures. Throughout the film, the central character tries to process grief from an event, as she questions how her total attentiveness to the real might be slightly hallucinatory. The dialogue weaves between the narrator’s internal conversation and reflections with herself and with an overbearing doctor, who she consults with to help overcome issues with perception and memories of the past. The narration takes the viewer through vivid descriptions of experiences at night, as well as sensory perceptions of time passing. It focuses on questions around how memory is recorded, stored, and altered through the process of physical perception and recall, propelling more questions around what we see and believe with our eyes. “From Dusk to Dawn” draws inspiration from various novels and poems, the primary one being “Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass’ by Bruno Schulz (1937).
Nechama Winston
Nechama Winston (b. Brooklyn, NY, 1989) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in NYC. She has participated in exhibitions and screenings at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; the International Center of Photography Museum, NYC; The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, NYC; the Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania; and the University of Oslo, Norway; among others. Winston is the co-founder and editor of New Poetics Publishing and works at Asya Geisberg Gallery, NYC. She received an MFA from Bard College-International Center of Photography, and a BA in Art History and Behavioral Neuroscience from CUNY Hunter College, NYC. She recently completed a yearlong fellowship with LABA NY at the 14th Street Y and is a member of the The Film-Makers’ Cooperative.
