Solitude (2022)
MARIA (2023)
This is the website for film director, filmmaker and artist Nina Danino
SOLITUDE Nina Danino’s film with Nico (Christa Päffgen) (Velvet Underground) as icon, screen and poet was launched on 24th January 2023 at the London Short Film Festival as a special event where Gagarin (Graham Dowdall) performed his new soundtrack. For more details here.
TRAILER Saeta
TRAILER Nico “In Between the Lines”
TRAILER Poem “When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be”
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MARIA is an experimental film in which Maria Callas is seen in recordings of different performances – Norma, Tosca, Medea and recitals. Callas is transfigured in an audio-visual ICONOSTASIS (a wall of icons) of archive and newly shot footage. 2023 is the Anniversary of Maria Callas.
MARIA will be launched on 14 December 2023, Opera North, Leeds. More information here.
TRAILER MARIA
LUX Interview with Jo Blair THE MYTH AND CULT OF MARIA CALLAS here
Nico in Dark Times : Nina Danino’s Solitude by Laura Staab ALT/KINO
MARIA is a diptych and sister film to SOLITUDE (2022). More information here
“… two exquisite films by Nina Danino, Solitude (2022) and MARIA (2023)… focus respectively on, Nico and Maria Callas” Kieron Corliss Associate Editor, Sight and Sound
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XXXI. THE NIGHT-SONG by Nina Danino with Precious Akindele-Obasusi on organ. A recital of readings and improvised vocals from Thus Spake Zarathustra and Psalms to organ drone and music. St. John’s Church, St. John’s Vale, London SE8 4EA, Fringe Deptford X 12 July 2025. Trailer here
Fellow at the APRIL Judson Summer Colloquium 23-27 June 2025, Judson Memorial Church, New York City.
Varieties of Cinematic Experience (VCE), Film Festival-Symposium 20-22 June New York City, Director’s Showcase, Judson Memorial Church.
Solitude, screening, hosted by Colloquium: Unpopular Culture, University of New York, 22 June 2025,
Religion&Art/Colab Curated with Mark Dean Session 1, 7 May 2025, Linda Mary Montano, Claire Elizabeth Barratt, Paul B Davis. Session 2 21 May 2025, Elena Botts, Vancci Wahn, Aly Gear, Grace Papineau-Couture, DJ Hatfield. Session 3 11 June 2025, Teresa Calonje, Louise Nelstrop, Elena Unger.
MARIA, screening + Q&A with Rita Di Santo, Close-Up film centre, London 25 February, 2025
MARIA, screening + Q&A with Holger Lang, Stadtkino, Künstlerhaus, Vienna 11 February, 2025
Album: I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty TESTAMENT Bandcamp Release 31 October 2024.
Revisiting Bare Wires (2024) mobile phone video covers recorded July 2024
Sandy Revisiting Bare Wires (2024) mobile phone video cover recorded July 2024
SEMINCI 69 International Film Festival, Valladolid, Spain 18-26 October 2024. Jury, Time of History Nina Danino, Tomasz Poborca and Domingo Sánchez-Mesa.
Sorelle Povere di Santa Chiara 2016 16mm, (12 mins), Blue Binding Ribbon, Group, Temporary Gallery, Cologne 12 April- 2 June 2024
Solitude and MARIA, double screening + Q&A 11 June 2024, Inclinations Film Club curator Rastko Novakovic, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow.
Solitude, screening with the music of GAGARIN + Discussion with John Robb, Richard Witts, Phil Jones, Nigel Bagley, Nina Danino, Cultplex, Manchester, 15 June 2024. Information here.. Manchester Wire
Religion&Art Live, Curated with Mark Dean Session 3, 4 May 2024, Evensong and Performance Linda Mary Montano. Further details
MARIA + Q&A, Inces Hall Theatre, Gibraltar, 18 April, 2024,
Light: Look at Your Sun, Ash Ra Tempel performance to the original track by Nina Danino, St, Stephen Walbrook, London 6 April 2024. Manuel Goettsching official website
Religion&Art Live, Curated with Mark Dean Session 2, Dan Byrne-Smith, Donna Matthews, Antónis Kastellaní, Nina Danino. St. Stephen Walbrook, London, 6 April 2024. View Event www.religionandart.org
Blood Echoes by Donna Matthews with Antonis Kastellani and Nina Danino reading from The Winter of Artifice, Anais Nin, Panes 1 series 23 March 2024 Information and View
Gesture, conference St. John’s College, Oxford 25-27 January 2024. Session : Gesture as Excess, Nina Danino Gesture in my Films and Ghost of Love (2021).
Book Review: ‘Mary Magdalene: A Visual History by Diane Aposolos-Cappadona’, Nina Danino, Art + Christianity Journal Issue 116, Winter 2023
MARIA, Launch Screening, Opera North, Leeds, 7.30pm, Thursday 14 December 2023 Information here
Nico Night Part 1: Solitude (2022) Nina Danino + Key (1968) Peter Gidal. In conversation Nina Danino with National Archive curator William Fowler, BFI Southbank, Wednesday 19 July 2023, 18.15 NFT3.
Nico Night Part 2 : The Inner Scar (1972) Philippe Garrel, BFI Southbank, Wednesday 19 July 2023 20.30 NFT 3.
Cover of I’m Dying (Yoko Ono) live performance 21 March 2023, Religion&Art Live. View here
MARIA is awarded an Exceptional Award by the Department of Art, Goldsmiths, 2023
GBC TV, The HUB cultural magazine programme, 18 January 2023 . View here