Jhana and the Rats of James Olds

Directed by Stephanie Barber

Between June 25 and August 7 2011 Stephanie Barber moved her studio into the Baltimore Museum of Art where she created a new video each day in a central gallery open to museum visitors. The goal of this project was to create a series of short, poetic videos in the playful and serious footprints of Oulipo games and daily meditations. 30,000 days, at the baths, at the shore, the badger and the hare, billy and the magician, bruce nauman, dear randolph, delaney soyinka, the eclipse, edgar degas, for wg sebald, have you seen diane, i love you, invisible, july 1st, level of zero buoyancy, little kitten, miniatures, my regrets, the phone call, puppet television, romance novels, the shama bird in 1889, some animals, the survey, tatum's ghost, tears or rain or something that falls, time is running out, to be old, the tree shadow, what is a party