In collaboration with the celebrated painter and installation artist, filmmaker Jeremy Rall refigures Rodney McMillian's "Representation of a Landscape as a Wall" for MOCAtv. Just as McMillian often pushes painting into the realm of textiles, Rall transforms our video viewing into a tactile experience. His camera takes McMillian's title literally, scaling the immense scale of the work like a cliff and navigating its contours like a forest. Crashes of lightening from the score echo within the streaks of McMillian's colors: pools of purple, ripples of red, and luscious blacks. Here, McMillian's "Landscape" takes on multiple meanings: landscapes of earth and self, external and internal, which merge in the distressed, despairing landscapes of culture itself.

 

 

Film by Jeremy Rall in collaboration with Rodney McMillian

Photographed by Armando Estrada and Jeremy Rall