bretta c. walker
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she was a space #1 :
ROT EROTIC
2025to be released soon
published by Evidence House
the first in an series of books titled
She was a Space
this installment documents a death cycle
black holes / white sands
2021
to be published
Grace fills empty spaces
but it can only enter
where there is a void to recieve it,
and it is grace itself
which makes this void
- Simone Weil
a photographic examination of gravity and grief, cosmos, death rites and gypsum dunes
gravis
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grief
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gravity
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gravid
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gravitas
the hollow
2022
motion picture film
collaboration with Jean-Jacques Martinod
14min / 16mm b&w film
a Southern Documentary Fund Supported Project, 2021 // recipient of the North Carolina Arts Council, Artist Support Grant, 2022
living in solitude with the dense, misty forests of Southern Appalachia and the infernal fires of a young artist’s glass foundry, lines between real and imaginary realms blur
2025
- Crater-Lab | Works of Bretta C. Walker and Jean-Jacques Martinod | Barcelona, Spain
- LAIA | Works of Bretta C. Walker and Jean-Jacques Martinod | Porto, Portugal
2024
- Casa do Comum | Works of Bretta C. Walker and Jean-Jacques Martinod | Lisbon, Portugal
- Science New Wave Festival | New York City, United States
- Jean-Jacques Martinod and Bretta C. Walker: Into the Ether | Mackenzie Art Gallery | Regina, Canada
- Labocine Live | September 20-21
- OnlineXinema | Elements of Dying | Vancouver, Canada
- Las Cinegrafías de Jean-Jacques Martinod y Bretta C. Walker | Universidad de las Artes | Guayaquil, Ecuador
- Chicago Filmmakers | Correspondence Cartographies: Short Films by Jean-Jacques Martinod, Bretta C. Walker & Matthew Wolkow | Chicago, United States
- Paadman Video Event | Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Frontera Sur Festival Internacional de Cine de No-Ficción | Concepción, Chile
- Iowa City International Documentary Festival | Iowa City, United States
- Light Cone Scratch Projection | Luminor Hôtel de Ville | Paris, France
- AricaDoc | Arica, Chile
- First Crossings | Nova Gorica, Slovenia
- EDOC (Encuentros del Otro Cine) Guayaquil/Quito, Ecuador
- Engauge Experimental Film Festival | Seattle, United States
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Mostra Strangloscope | Florianópolis, Brazil
- Mimesis Documentary Festival | Boulder, United States
- Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative Visiting Filmmaker Screening | Regina, Canada
- Cosmic Rays Film Festival | Chapel Hill, United States
- Tranås at the Fringe International Arts Festival | Tranås, Sweden
- No Name Cinema Retrospective Program| Works of Bretta C. Walker & Jean-Jacques Martinod | Santa Fe, United States
2022
- Encuentros Cinematográficos Cámara Lúcida | Cuenca, Ecuador
datura’s aubade
2021motion picture film
collaboration with Jean-Jacques Martinod
17min,31sec / color + b&w / super 8mm + 16mm
Recipent of the Interbay Cinema Society Lightpress Grant, 2020
a farmer discovers a fallen meteorite in the high deserts of New Mexico
the Alien Earth and the Earth Alien commingle under the spell of a deadly nightshade
2024
- Chicago Filmmakers | Correspondence Cartographies | Chicago, United States
- Iowa City International Documentary Festival | Iowa City, United States
2023
- Kinoskop Analog Experimental Film Festival | Belgrade, Serbia
- Mostra Strangloscope | Florianópolis, Brazil
- Monticello Park Film Festival | New York City, United States
- ABC No Rio | Mythical Common Land, Group Exhibition | New York City, United States
- Frontera Sur Muestras Iterantes | Biobío y Ñuble, Chile
- Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative Visiting Filmmaker Screening | Regina, Canada
- Mientras Tanto CINE | Montevideo, Uruguay
- No Name Cinema Retrospective Program | Works of Bretta C. Walker & Jean-Jacques Martinod | Santa Fe, United States
2022
- Encuentros Cinematográficos Cámara Lúcida | Cuenca, Ecuador
- Antimatter | Victoria, Canada
- SÉANCE “Animal, es-tu là ?” | Cinéma Arvor | Rennes, France
- EDOC(Encuentros del Otro Cine) | Guayaquil / Quito, Ecuador
- Frontera Sur Festival Internacional de Cine de No-Ficción | Concepción, Chile
- Festival de Cine Etnográfico | FLACSO | Quito, Ecuador
- AricaDoc | Arica, Chile
- Doc Alliance | DAFilms Featured Filmmakers, Bretta C. Walker & Jean-Jacques Martinod | Online
- Cinéma Arvor | Rennes, France
- Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival | Istanbul, Turkey
- First Crossings / Prvi Poleti | Nova Gorica, Slovenia
- ACC Cinematheque | Gwangju, South Korea
- Revolutions Per Minute Festival | Boston, United
- StatesEuropean Media Arts Festival | Osnabrück, Germany
- VideoGarden.9: Short Films by Jean-Jacques Martinod & Bretta C. Walker | Škuc Galerija | Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Pravo Ljudski Film Festival | Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
- EXiS Experimental Film and Video Festival | Seoul, South Korea
- l’Alternativa Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain
- Mimesis Documentary Festival | Boulder, United States
- Engauge Experimental Film Festival | Seattle, United States
- Dobra International Experimental Film Festival | Rio de Janeiro, Brazi
- lFestival Obskura | Rennes, France
- Experiments in Cinema | Albuquerque, United States
- AFV & Dom Kulture Studenski Grad | Belgrade, Serbia
- Bogotá Experimental Film Festival | Bogotá, Colombia
- ¡Alud! Festival de Procesos Analógicos CraterLab | Barcelona, Spain
- Marienbad International Film Festival | Mariánské Lázně, Czech Republic
- Tranås at the Fringe International Arts Festival | Tranås, Sweden
- MACHINALIVE | Nomadica at LABA | Brescia, Italy
- Prismatic Ground | New York, United States
- UNCSA Guest Artist Screening, April 2022 | Winston-Salem, United States
- Cuentos de la Tierra | Ciclos de Cine en Universidad de las Artes | Guayaquil, Ecuador
2021
- La Lumière Collective | Montreal, Canada
- Encuentros Cinematográficos Cámara Lúcida | Cuenca, Ecuador
- Camden International Film Festival | Camden, United States
my dirty cunt & me / vol. 1 : the garden
2019
published by The Centre for Expanded Poetics & Evidence House
“to those who seek, the primary impulse is to return to The Garden & the dark substrates of its mystery”
The Garden is the first volume in an unraveling photographic series titled My Dirty Cunt & Me, which dually operates as an exploration of the phantasmagoric and as documentation of Walker’s personal healing journey
this first installment seeks reparations with Nature on both interior & exterior landscapes while also investigating the noöspheric trauma passed down through menstrual blood
a journey through 5 garden landscapes :
Ecstasis
Hekat
The Sepulcher
Restoration & Zôion
Alchemy
collection of over 250 platinotypes, cyanotypes, & silver prints toned with various wildcrafted plant matter
* Sold Out *
you can find this work archived at :
+ The International Center of Photography
New York, New York, USA
+ LABA
Brescia, Italy
+ Duke University Libary, Artist Books Collection
Durham, North Carolina, USA
+ Brown University Libary, Artist Books Collection
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
+ The Centre for Expanded Poetics
Montréal, Québec, Canada
installation view :
Anteism Gallery, Montréal, Canada
12/2019 - 1/2020
also exhibited as solo show:
PhotoEye Project Space, Santa Fe, U.S.A
2/2020 - 6/2020
floating head, fruiting body, female human in love with light
praxis is comprised of analog photography, filmmaking, written word, and printed matter interwoven with a personal life dedicated to land stewardship and folk medicine
work is discovered through process, the hand playing a crucial role / often addressing intimacy, abyss, somatic memory, and passage
Walker’s works have shown in various galleries and festivals across the Americas, Asia, and Europe and have been permanently archived in several institutional collections, including that of The International Center of Photography in New York, Libera Accademia di Belle Arti in Italy, and Brown University
she spearheads the publishing project Evidence House, is represented by Vtape distributors in Canada, holds a BFA in Studio Art from Tufts University, and is currently managing the vermiculture composting program at EcoCycle, the US’s first mission based non-profit Zero Waste initiative. She is pursuing her board certification in Vitalist Herbalism, Field Botany, and Integrated Nutrition at the Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism