Butterflies
Butterflies is a multi-media video + sound installation created by artist Ling DeBellis and composer Antonio Sanz Escallón. Butterflies is a three-part, experimental film that explores ideas related to growth and development. The installation centers around DeBellis' semi-autobiographical abstraction in response to maturity, femininity, and changing perspectives over the past several years while living in Houston.
I. WOMB/COCOON (6 min, 56 sec)
II. Metamorphosis (5 min, 49 sec)
III. The Freedom of Movement (6 min, 8 sec)
WOMB/COCOON
Fertilization. Possibility. Seed. One in four hundred quadrillion. Pulse. Flow. Creation. Seeing without glasses. Spermatozoa. Embryo. Grapefruits.
Metamorphosis
Afterglow. Over saturation. Ensō. Whispers. Travel. Blur. Garden-Music. Tangents. Blossoming. Becoming. Changing. Unfolding.
Metamorphosis features
Wen-Hsiu Angela Lai, flute
Katherine Butler, violin
Lena-Marie Stoger, violin
Søren Lorentzen, viola
Maximus Gurath, cello
The Freedom of Movement
Thunderstorms. Flight. Unbound. Migration.
An end is not always stationary. Immigration. Traffic. Transport. Life. City-Nocturne. Wherever I go, my body is mine.
The Freedom of Movement features
Antonio Sanz Escallón, piano
Butterflies is made with support from:
The Women's Foundation of Minnesota
Young Women's Initiative of MN Innovator Grants 2021 and 2022
Sleepy Cyborg Gallery, Houston TX
Rice University Visual & Dramatic Arts
Rice University President's Programming Fund
Butterflies premiered the evening of Jan 20, 2023 at Sleepy Cyborg Gallery in Houston TX.
Butterflies was screened the evening of March 29, 2023 at Blaffer Arts Museum in Houston, TX.
Antonio Sanz Escallón is a composer based in Baltimore & Houston. https://www.antoniosanze.com/
Press Release
Rice Magazine, Spring 2023
https://magazine.rice.edu/spring-2023/creation-unfolding
Convergence Research Collaborative Session, Blaffer Art Museum – March 29, 2023
https://blafferartmuseum.org/events/convergence-research-collaborative-session/
Rice News, “Feeling the butterflies” – Jan 23, 2023
https://news.rice.edu/news/2023/feeling-butterflies
