FILM

As night settles over the fields, a human figure merges into the darkness of the woods, held in the ghostly beam of a truck headlight. Inspired by Christina Rossetti’s 19th century poem On the Wing, in which a dream of love is ruptured by violence and abandonment, Kate Solar conjures dark, modern Romanticism rooted in the material life of film. The film is shot on 16mm black-and-white reversal stock and developed by hand, with a developer made from comfrey leaves.