This short fiction was made while Dean was artist in residence in Bourges, France. Bourges was an important medieval centre for alchemy, and the film drwas upon the practice of transmuting air into gold, an elixer for live. It is about rising at dawn in a hot air balloon, trying to catch the ascending dew […]
Part travelogue, part drama documentary, the film is based on the life of St Agatha as recorded in the Lives of Saints (3rd century, Sicily). Fact and fition are used in a consideration of Agatha’s breasts as relics and an examination of the history of relic hunting. THe film is structured like an altarpiece in […]