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Deborah-Joyce Holman

Close-up/ Quiet as it's kept/ Quiet as it's kept/ Close-up

Love Letter

Spill I-III

Moment 2 

Beautiful and tough as chestnut/ stanchions against our
nightmare of weakness

Moment
Untitled (for scale)
 Untitled (in rage)
Unless
Maybe intensely so, or not at all, but definitely mistaken - unhinged, unbound
Untitled (in refusal)
A Glare (Glimpse)
Thicc and Slippery
A Soft Spiral
 These notes are spread through rtf, ig and pages i’ve marked but never re-read

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©2022

Deborah-Joyce Holman

Close-up/ Quiet as it's kept/ Quiet as it's kept/ Close-up

Love Letter 
Spill I-III

Moment 2 
Beautiful and tough as chestnut/ stanchions against our nightmare of weakness
Moment
Untitled (for scale)
 Untitled (in rage)
Unless
Maybe intensely so, or not at all, but definitely mistaken - unhinged, unbound
Loss
Untitled (in refusal)
A Glare (Glimpse)
Thicc and Slippery
A Soft Spiral
 These notes are spread through rtf, ig and pages i’ve marked but never re-read

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 Email
Instagram

©2022
Film Still.

Unless
 with Yara Dulac Gisler
2021
3-channel 4k film
16min 43sec


Installation view at Cherish, Geneva. Photo: Gunnar Meier. Courtesy: Explorers Film Club & the artists. 

Installation view at Cherish, Geneva. Photo: Gunnar Meier. Courtesy: Explorers Film Club & the artists.

Film by Yara Dulac Gisler & Deborah Joyce Holman
Performers - Yara Dulac Gisler, Deborah Joyce Holman, Mirco Joao Pedro, Cynthia Matumona, Suhyene Iddrisu
Director of Picture - Jelena Luise
Camera - Jumana Issa
Sound recordist - Ananda Schmidt
Styling & Make-Up (concept) - Desmond Chan
HMU & Styling assistants - Jahsiri Asabi-Shakir, Chaïm Vischel
Production assistant - Caroline Honorien
Set assistants - Joy Asumadu, Glenn Asumadu, Timon Essoungou, Imani Fux, Alice Lushima, Sera Ndlovu, KT Omole, Fatima Salum, Nahom Weldemehret
Editing - Deborah Joyce Holman, Rodan Tekle (from Studio Junbi)
Grading - Natacha Ikoli
Score - Yara Dulac Gisler, Deborah Joyce Holman
The Bells (Remix) - Bearcat - Yara Dulac Gisler, Deborah Joyce Holman, Dion McKenzie
Audio Mix - Jackie Poloni
Audio Mastering - Russell E. L. Butler, Merlin Züllig
Graphic Design - Ann Kern
Editing: Subtitles - Imani Robinson, B Covington Sam-Sumana
Exterior Eye - Jeremy Nedd

Special thanks to Atelier Mondial, Ali-Eddine Abdelkhalek, Hochschule für Kunst und Gestaltung Basel, Julie Machin, Flavio Luca Marano, Ivy Monteiro, None Nissen, Uncle Naa Dom aka Fred Biney, David Nana Opoku Ansah, Philip Ortelli, Point de Vue Basel, Jonas Schaffter

Unless was commissioned by Explorers Film Club (Samuel Leuenberger and Benedikt Wyss). Made possible with the generous support of ProHelvetia and Jugendkulturpauschale Basel-Stadt.