HD, b/w, sound, 2:00, 2020

Testament extracts the magical and poetic from a brief scene from Jean Cocteau's magical and poetic film, The Testament of Orpheus (1960), in which Orpheus, reaching the end of his life, travels through surreal spaces and meets magical characters, before he disappears. This film was created using a black marker on more than 2700 sheets of plain paper. Its shaky lines are a testament to the film, to Cocteau, and to the persistence of the filmmaker herself. This film can be shown as an installation or in a theatrical context. In its first exhibition in Beijing, China, it was shown as a single screen installation.