Nina Danino Movies

  • 2023
    Solitude

    Solitude

    Solitude

    02023HD

    Readings from the poets Byron, Keats, Brontë, Tennyson, Coleridge and songs from the dark repertoire of the singer Nico with portraits from the...

    Solitude
  • 1983
    Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti

    Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti

    Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti

    5.31983HD

    An unconventional portrait of painter Frida Kahlo and photographer Tina Modotti. Simple in style but complex in its analysis, it explores the...

    Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
  • 1993

    "Now I Am Yours"

    "Now I Am Yours"

    51993HD

    A film on Saint Teresa that leads us through an unnervingly authentic extreme state of religious and sexual ecstasy. With the central image of the...

  • 2010
    Communion

    Communion

    Communion

    02010HD

    A communion portrait of a young girl filmed and lit in the classic style of 50s Hollywood and European classic cinema.

    Communion
  • 2013
    Apparitions

    Apparitions

    Apparitions

    02013HD

    Black and white Super 8 footage is combined with HD images of black and white photographs held in close up reflection, as thoughts and responses to...

    Apparitions
  • 1998
    Temenos

    Temenos

    Temenos

    5.251998HD

    Temenos means a sacred site or ritual precinct. Temenos, the film, explores the phenomenon of visionary experiences. In the film we see locations...

    Temenos
  • 2016
    Sorelle Povere di Santa Chiara

    Sorelle Povere di Santa Chiara

    Sorelle Povere di Santa Chiara

    02016HD

    A 16mm portrait in response to the idea of simplicity and poverty which is the guiding principle of the Poor Clares and their ‘hidden’...

    Sorelle Povere di Santa Chiara
  • 2019
    I Die of Sadness Crying for You

    I Die of Sadness Crying for You

    I Die of Sadness Crying for You

    02019HD

    Spanish popular copla songs and their mighty female singers are the focus of this evocative film.

    I Die of Sadness Crying for You
  • 1990
    Stabat Mater

    Stabat Mater

    Stabat Mater

    31990HD

    Stabat Mater opens and closes with two sung laments, then launches into a breathless torrent of words and phrases, a re-reading of the eternal...

    Stabat Mater
  • 2015
    Jennifer

    Jennifer

    Jennifer

    02015HD

    The film unfolds the life of an enclosed monastery over the course of one day. It invites the audience into a world of enclosure which is rarely seen...

    Jennifer
  • 1997
    The Silence is Baroque

    The Silence is Baroque

    The Silence is Baroque

    01997HD

    The rough voices of men (from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Accatone ) open the film soundtrack, they banter in Italian about taking flowers to the...

    The Silence is Baroque
  • 1985
    Close to Home

    Close to Home

    Close to Home

    51985HD

    Gibraltar as a real place – and an imagined geography and history. In the first part, the camera travels around West Berlin picking out...

    Close to Home