Venice  “All winter comes into my being”  WINTER SONGS. A short film with music filmed on location in Venice.  With Pietro Fanelli as Himself/The Angel/Jim Morrison/Byron/Baudelaire/The Devil. With music by Glasgow musician Dirt Brooks and poetry/prose recital of original lyrics by Nina Danino and Cathedral organ.  Making this film was intended as an escape to Venice after many years of being forgotten. Why Venice?  The city of lovers, luxury, opulence, art and mystery, exoticism as portrayed in the spirit of Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil.  I went to look for the devil, hiding in corners and circulating in the heavy seduction of desperation and despair, “…in everything that is distraught”.   

Sandy Denny Expanded (provisional title) with musician Bert Page (Cromagnon Band and Project Gemini). A  series of songs particularly of young girls’ stories of sadness, their sailors drowned, betrayal, loss, loneliness, death, haunting emotion, lost youth, voices of yearning and melancholy.  Songs from rural lives and the resonance of Sandy Denny’s voice and Fairport Convention’s electronic folk wafting in the early days in London as a student and wanderings around Camden.  Recordings of 1-2 improvised sessions.  

Notes: My films on the singers Maria Callas, Nico, Marifé de Triana are centred on the female voice’s capacity to communicate emotion and stark social realities. The source is my own mother’s voice which appears in Stabat Mater (1992) with the religious emotional and intense form of the saeta, in the sound piece Meteorologies (2012) with gentle and sad romantic boleros and in the film I Die of Sadness Crying for You (2018) centred on a lyrical form called copla expressing dramatic emotions, tragic but defying women characters, stories of social ostracisation and unrequited love.  

Vision Seven: A live recital on Hildegard of Bingen through her demonic and apocalyptic visions.  Following my work on the intellectual Teresa of Avila in “Now I am yours” (1992) in which the mystical as it reaches towards the heavenly is intertwined and stalked by the fear of the devil which results in literary poetry and prose, Hildegard of Bingen’s boring, monotonous and graphic descriptions are a challenge to recite unlike her beautiful verses for singing in the Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum.  

The Far South my all important long film project which will incorporates many of the themes in my work. A transfixing journey of encounters with dialogue, voice over and a music track.  Walking on borders of the erotic and religious.  TRAILER

‘Framed in Reflection’: Experimental film and the subject/ive. Screening & panel Q&A Goldsmiths Cinema, Saturday 6 December, 2025 Launch of Experimental Film and the Subjective/ive at the London Filmmakers’ Co-op: A series of conversations with women filmmakers by Nina Danino LUX publication 31 October 2025 This project of in-depth interviews with six filmmakers was initiated in 2019-2020 and completed in 2024-2025. Read on LUX website. 

“Saturday 6th, December, The Goldsmiths Cinema will see the public launch of the major, historic and vital project- Experimental film and the subject/ive at the London Film-makers’ Co-op: A series of conversations with women filmmakers by Nina Danino. They are complex, intellectual, creative, generous and beautiful”. Helen de Witt

From Here to Eternity a video of a poem by Nico (Christa Päffgen)  A rare poem (possibly) by Nico found in an obscure journal, sent by John Gianvito. Recited by Nina Danino on Nico’s 87th anniversary 16 October 2025. View

ILFORD 781 TYPE P a 16mm film of portraits of Ian Treherne and Nina Danino by Nina Danino shot on obsolete stock, 3 minutes and 8 minutes with music. Thanks for processing to Arepo Films and James Holcombe.And a photoshoot of portraits of Nina Danino by photographer Ian Treherne. 14.10.25.

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. View on You Tube  Listen on Bandcamp

July 1978, 235 2nd Avenue, Apart. 1B, NY 1000. A video filmed in New York, July 2025, Digital, 17 minutes. Camera and sound Clara Behnk. Thanks to SB Rodriguez Plate and April-Judson Fellowship 2025, Judson Memorial Church, New York. In this video I read out letters written from this address in the Summer of 1978.  Video info here

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 was  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 
MARIA is a diptych and sister film to SOLITUDE (2022). More information here

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”
Press 
Nico in Dark Times : Nina Danino’s Solitude by Laura Staab ALT/KINO 

“… 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