

GLOWING
Three-screen film installation & live performances 2024-2025
Soon to be a feature-length film, Glowing is currently a 50-minute, three-screen film installation with live performance. The overarching themes of Glowing are overcoming adversity and transforming life’s struggles through creative expression - glowing in the face of adversity. B condenses her artistic visual language to the essence of life, of human existence. With a dreamlike quality in image and music, she draws the viewer into the stories of her universe, revealing the characters of her film. The fusion of 20'x30' film imagery, music and performance creates an immersive experience that is captivating and entertaining, but also confronts existential questions of human coexistence. We must hold our own as sentient and self-reflecting beings, with the courage to face abysses and ruin, to confront identity and life struggles. But in contrast to being hopelessly trapped, the characters radiate glimmers of hope, of liberation and change.
A work-in-progress, currently at 50 minutes, Glowing is expanding to a feature-length film and installation.
Featuring Nick Flynn, Annie Bandez, No Anger, Robert O. Leaver, Vincent Dubuis and Evelyn Frantii
Music composed by Jim Coleman
On-line catalogue
NOW WAVE: BETH B
Installation excerpts
NOW WAVE: BETH B includes four new film, music and voice installations: Tunnel, Sorrow, Children of Wonder, Helpless Child. B has developed provocative and innovative approaches to challenge the histories we live with and the violent state of the world.
"A long period of life lived underwater, in collapse, struggling through torment, mindless yet palpable fear, catastrophic projections, alienation…to surface in the cacophony of living on a planet of death, destruction, and violence…NOW searching for a place where one’s mind can calm in the anxiety, breathe through the black haze, reach out with eyes open in wonder, touching with kindness, thoughtfulness, tears, humble humanity, uncertainty, trust…a journey of a lifetime still groping through it all, still alive to navigate a path to find our floating glowing souls." – Beth B (2024)
Music by Jim Coleman, Swans, and Robert O. Leaver
NEAR DEATH a collaboration with Jim Coleman
Installation excerpts
NEAR DEATH is comprised of multiple sonic/video/sculptural installations that explore the expansive yet claustrophobic state of being that people who have had near-death experiences report. There is a common transmutation where everything preconceived and reliable dissolves and the world around us with its meanings and assumptions are in limbo. Within three unique installations, the fusion of experiential accounts and ethereal soundscapes opens a dialogue, a virtual connection between life, death and transformation that we all share.
Featuring Bliss Blood & Jared Louche
Music composed by Jim Coleman