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EMPTY
COLD MOON COMMUNION
WE BREATHE EACH OTHER IN
AND OUT OF EXISTENCE
PHYTOGRAM STUDIES
ACID RAIN
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Empty (Song by Emma Geiger)

16mm, color
2023

Music Video for Emma Geiger
Filmed by Archer Boyette
Edited by Archer Boyette and Emma Geiger

Filmed in Durham, NC

︎ https://emma-geiger.bandcamp.com/

Cold Moon Communion

16mm, field recordings, synthesizer
(forthcoming)

Melting snow. Creaking trees. The distant call of a great horned owl. A sister’s whisper. Cold Moon Communion seeks to make visible the sacred ties that bind land, animal, human, and plant.

Filmed in the Blue Ridge Mountains.





we breathe each other in and out of existence

16mm film strips, digital projections, environmental field recordings, botanicals, tree stumps
2021

we breathe each other in and out of existence is a multimedia installation that weaves analog, digital, sculptural, and sonic components to celebrate the magic of plant life and create a space of environmental reverence. All plants in the installation are harvested in Pisgah National Forest.

Interview with Lauren Henschel available here.

Phytogram Studies

16mm film, botanicals, non-toxic developer
2020-2021

Experiments in image-making with plants and homemade, non-toxic developer.








Acid Rain

16mm, creek water, bleaching solution
2019

A cinematic recreation of the violence of acid rain. Developed with creek water and stripped with bleaching agent. Filmed in the Blue Ridge Mountains.