By Jenny Zeller
Nathaniel(Le) Hendrickson works as an interdisciplinary artist, painter, curator, documentary filmmaker, and freelance producer based in Casey County, KY. Their work explores the edge of performance and visual art with their current work focusing on the ecological crisis, human perception, and the metamorphic sublime.
For CONNECT, Hendrickson will screen 3 short films about the tenuous relationship between human civilization and the more-than-human worlds. You can find their work featured at the northern end of Lake Nevin in the beautiful Pond Cypress tree collection, a particularly special location. This is an experience not to miss!
For more event information and to purchase advance tickets, go to bernheim.org/connect.
Openings: A meditation on memory, ghosts, familial trauma, and the desire to escape the frame. This experiment in non-narrative silent filmmaking takes us on a journey through the stomping grounds of a solitary woman at work on a simple project: to build a mystic vessel that will help her to cross over to the other side. Co-written and performed by Camille Freychet (Belgium); direction and cinematography by Nathaniel.le Hendrickson (USA). Started in 2021: A work in progress.
NatureFreak: A video artwork initiated by Nathaniel Hendrickson (USA) in collaboration with Gianluigi Biagini (Italy) made in residence on Le Ventre De La Baleine (a riverboat) near Montagne Saint-Pierre in collaboration with Projet Daena for the occasion of the International Seminar, Borderscapes II. Initiated by ULiege School of Architecture. The video was screened at Farm Caestert on June 26, 2023, and the West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival in 2024.
Mediation Metabolism: Made over the course of one day, this piece was created as a derivé and pseudo-asmr-meditation-video-spoof. Blurring the every day with the strange, this video takes the microscopic dirt around Fiona’s house and puts it under the baroque lens of a microscope. Similarly, my presence as a filmmaker was interventional… as I put my participant observation as a filmmaker in very close spaces, crossing mystical and intimate boundaries as I moved through charged intimate places in Fiona’s backyard, her closet, favorite places to forage for berries, and studio space. In collaboration with Fiona Borger, 2017.
