interview about film: issuu.com/arthabens/docs/art_habens_art_review_summer_2015_e/4
Synopsis
Nothing tells the story of a young woman named Jane. She has resigned herself to a life with a man that she doesn't love and a dead-end job as a maid in a small rundown motel. Her one form of escape is to try on the lives of the guests that are staying in the rooms she cleans.
As Jane reluctantly cleans while dabbling in her role playing game, she comes face to face with her own life, in a frightening and honest way.
Set in the heat-soaked town of Twentynine Palms, the desert landscape becomes a character, and the film rides the line between art and narrative.
People
Tracey Snelling-writer, director, set design
Idan Levin-executive producer, producer
Christine No-producer
Elizabeth Guest as "Jane"
Idan Levin as "lump"
Todd Banhazl-cinematographer
John LaRosa-sound design, production sound mixer
Jeremy Castillo-editor, 2nd unit dp
Jeff Powers-gaffer
music by Ryan Ruehlen and My Uncle is a Cannibal
Screenings
AC Institute art exhibition
New York, U S A
December 2013
Crocker Art Museum art exhibition
Sacramento, U S A
October 2013
Aeroplastics Contemporary art exhibition
Brussels, Belgium
September 2013
Circuito Off Film Festival
Venice, Italy
August 2013
Western Europe PREMIERE
Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Thessaloniki, Greece
November 2012
Eastern Europe PREMIERE
Oakland Underground Film Festival
Oakland, U S A
September 2012
Naperville Independent Film Festival
Naperville, U S A
September 2012
San Francisco International Film Festival
San Francisco, U S A
April 2012
North America PREMIERE
Director Biography
TRACEY SNELLING
DIRECTOR/WRITER
Tracey Snelling is an internationally exhibiting contemporary visual artist, known best for her immersive installations using small-scale and large-scale sculptures, along with projections. Through the use of many mediums, Snelling gives her impression of a place, its people and their experience, and allows the viewer to extrapolate his or her own meaning. Often, the cinematic image stands in for real life as it plays out behind windows in the buildings, sometimes creating a sense of mystery, other times stressing the mundane. Snelling was invited by the Sundance Film Festival in 2010 to exhibit her Bordertown installation. She has shown work in museums such as The Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Gemeentemuseum Helmond, the Netherlands; Shanghai Zendai MOMA, Zhujiajiao, China; and Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Germany. She has had solo exhibitions throughout the US as well as in China, Belgium, the Netherlands, and London, and has been awarded residencies in Beijing and Shanghai. Her large-scale, film-inspired installation Woman on the Run has been exhibited at Selfridges, London; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn; 21c Museum, Louisville; Frist, Nashville; the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in North Carolina, and the Virginia MOCA. Snelling presently has a large solo exhibition up in Brussels, Belgium, and will be having another solo exhibition in San Francisco in December.
