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Datura’s Aubade

2021

motion picture film
collaboration with Jean-Jacques Martinod
17min,31sec / color + b&w / super 8mm + 16mm
Recipent of the Interbay Cinema Society Lightpress Grant, 2020 

A farmer discovers a fallen meteorite  in the high deserts of New Mexico. 
The Alien Earth and the Earth Alien commingle under the spell of a deadly nightshade.


screenings & exhibitions to date

2023

  • ABC No Rio | Mythical Common Land, Group Exhibition | New York City, United States
  • Frontera Sur Muestras Iterantes | Biobío y Ñuble, Chile
  • Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative Visiting Filmmaker Screening | Regina, Canada
  • Mientras Tanto CINE | Montevideo, Uruguay
  • No Name Cinema Retrospective Program| Works of Bretta C. Walker & Jean-Jacques Martinod | Santa Fe, United States

2022

  • Antimatter | Victoria, Canada
  • SÉANCE “Animal, es-tu là ?” | Cinéma Arvor | Rennes, France
  • EDOC(Encuentros del Otro Cine) | Guayaquil / Quito, Ecuador
  • Frontera Sur Festival Internacional de Cine de No-Ficción | Concepción, Chile
  • Festival de Cine Etnográfico | FLACSO | Quito, Ecuador
  • Aricadoc | Arica, Chile
  • Doc Alliance | DAFilms Featured Filmmakers, Bretta C. Walker & Jean-Jacques Martinod | Online
  • Cinéma Arvor | Rennes, France
  • Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival | Istanbul, Turkey
  • First Crossings / Prvi Poleti | Nova Gorica, Slovenia
  • ACC Cinematheque | Gwangju, South Korea
  • Revolutions Per Minute Festival | Boston, United States
  • European Media Arts Festival | Osnabrück, Germany
  • VideoGarden.9: Short Films by Jean-Jacques Martinod & Bretta C. Walker| Škuc Galerija | Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Pravo Ljudski Film Festival | Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
  • EXiS Experimental Film and Video Festival | Seoul, South Korea
  • l’Alternativa Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain
  • Mimesis Documentary Festival | Boulder, United States
  • Engauge Experimental Film Festival | Seattle, United States
  • Dobra International Experimental Film Festival | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Festival Obskura | Rennes, France
  • Experiments in Cinema | Albuquerque, United States
  • AFV & Dom Kulture Studenski Grad | Belgrade, Serbia
  • Bogotá Experimental Film Festival | Bogotá, Colombia
  • ¡Alud! Festival de Procesos Analógicos CraterLab | Barcelona, Spain
  • Marienbad International Film Festival | Mariánské Lázně, Czech Republic
  • Tranås at the Fringe International Arts Festival | Tranås, Sweden
  • MACHINALIVE | Nomadica at LABA | Brescia, Italy
  • Prismatic Ground | New York, United States
  • UNCSA Guest Artist Screening, April 2022 | Winston-Salem, United States
  • Cuentos de la Tierra | Ciclos de Cine en Universidad de las Artes | Guayaquil, Ecuador

2021

  • La Lumière Collective | Montreal, Canada
  • Encuentros Cinematográficos Cámara Lúcida | Cuenca, Ecuador
  • Camden International Film Festival | Camden, United States