Slater Bradley
Dark Night of the Soul, 2005-2006
Slater Bradley (1975)
Dark Night of the Soul, 2005-2006
Single channel video, color, sound
8 min 16 sec
Dark Night of the Soul portrays an astronaut wandering through the exotic scenery of the galleries at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, moving to the tune of Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata”. Occurring after hours, the lone character explores representations of Earth and outer space, as if the suited figure were visiting a strange new world. Alluding to images of science and history, as well as to an already past future referenced in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, Bradley’s film evokes unspoken connections between imagination and fact.