ONLY DARK FROM OUTSIDE

This is an experimental film based on “Aphorisms on Futurisms” a poem by Mina Loy.

Painter and poet Mina Loy ( 1882- 1966) was a charter member of the generation that- beginning in 1912 with the founding of Poetry magazine- launched the modernist revolution in poetry in the United States. Mina Loy has been associated with most of the literary and artistic movements of the early 20th century: dadaism, surrealism, futurism, feminism, modernism and post-modernism.
Loy, a writer known for her frank embrace of female sexuality and feminist politics, joined the futurist movement in 1913, but she quickly encountered conflict regarding the movement’s perception of women.
Her manifesto addresses those conflicts within a context of support for the movement’s forwards- looking vision. Loy sees the female body as a site of resistance, and advocates affirmation and growth rather than destruction.

This is an experimental visual representation of the poem “ Aphorisms on Futurism”, a performance film that is the result of a collective interpretation of the poem. Our aim was to capture and re-create visually through free association, the feelings, emotions, intellectual meanings and the moods inspired and associated with the artist’s statement.