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”
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. View TRAILER here
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
Forthcoming News and Events
Religion&Art Live, Session, 6 April 2024 at St Stephen Walbrook, Register on Eventbrite
A performance/talk/event with Dan Byrne-Smith – electronics and voice / Donna Matthews – voice and sound improvisation / Nina Danino – voice
MARIA, Inces Hall Theatre, Gibraltar 18 April 2024. In person screening + Q&A with Davina Barbara. This event has been kindly hosted by Gibraltar Cultural Services. The historic Inces Hall Theatre which is over 250 years old is an especially chosen location for this screening.
Sorelle Povere di Santa Chiara 2016 16mm, (12 mins), Blue Binding Ribbon, Group exhibition, Temporary Gallery, Cologne 12 April- 2 June 2024
Solitude + MARIA. We have the good news that Inclinations Film Club will show Solitude and its sister film MARIA, together on 11 June 2024 at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow.
Solitude, A Live music screening with GAGARIN + Panel Jennifer Otter Bickerdike, Richard Witts, Phil Jones, Cultplex, Manchester, 15 June 2024. Information here.
Past Events
Performance Event : Nina Danino, Donna Matthews, Antonis Kastellani, Kenishiiwasa, Calliope Michail, Panes 1 series 23 March 2024 Information
View recording of performance of Blood Echoes by Donna Matthews with Antonis Kastellani and Nina Danino here
Gesture, conference St. John’s College, Oxford 25-27 January 2024. Session : Gesture as Excess, Presentation Nina Danino “Gesture in Film/Ghost of Love (2021) dance video performance.
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. Information here
Nico Night Part 2 : The Inner Scar (1972) Philippe Garrel, BFI Southbank, Wednesday 19 July 2023 20.30 NFT 3. Information here
Performance of ‘I’m Dying’ (Yoko Ono), 21 March 2023 in Religion&Art Live. Link here
MARIA on MARIA CALLAS is awarded an Excellence Award by the Department of Art, Goldsmiths, 2023
Appearance on GBC TV, The HUB cultural magazine programme, 18 January 2023 . View here