Film Screening: Rebecca (1940) with Brittany Nelson

Nelson’s new work is deeply shaped by literary and cinematic references, particularly Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel Rebecca, in which a young woman develops an obsession with her husband’s late first wife. Like the novel—and Alfred Hitchcock’s Oscar-winning 1940 film adaptation—Nelson’s video work plays with intimacy and distance, presence and absence. Drawing from the spectral atmosphere of Rebecca, the work frames the search for contact not only as a scientific endeavor, but as a mirror of the self and the limits of perception and human understanding.

6:00 Pizza (Galleries open)
6:30 Introductory remarks by Brittany Nelson
7:00 Film Screening (run time 2hr 10 min)
9:10 Q&A with Brittany Nelson

About the Speaker

Brittany Nelson (b. 1984, Great Falls, MT) is an artist based in New York City. She studied at Montana State University and Cranbrook Academy of Art and is an Associate Professor of Photography at the University of Richmond. Her work has been exhibited at KIASMA, Helsinki; Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; Le CAP - Centre d’art, Saint Fons, France; Fotogalleriet, Oslo; Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Norway; the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit; and Brooklyn Academy of Music; among others. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts and the SETI Institute, both in California.

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