bretta c. walker  



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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










screenings & exhibitions to date

2025
  • Barlinale | Berlin, Germany
  • Zumzeig Cinema | Interludios Eternos: cortometrajes de Jean-Jacques Martinod y Bretta C. Walker | Barcelona, Spain
  • LAIA | Works of Bretta C. Walker and Jean-Jacques Martinod | Porto, Portugal

2024
  • Casa Do Comum | Sessão de curtas-metragens | 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

 2023
  • AricaDoc | Arica, Chile
  • First Crossings | Nova Gorica, Slovenia
  • EDOC (Encuentros del Otro Cine)  Guayaquil/Quito, Ecuador
  • Engauge Experimental Film Festival | Seattle, United States
  • 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