Diana, Diana

Official New York Film Festival 2022 Currents Selection
Madison Lane Visual Arts Prize Winner
The Spaces Between Exhibition

Total run time: 10:20
HD video, stereo, archival footage
2022

In this fractured double-portrait, artist Kim Salac superimposes the story of Princess Diana onto images and narratives drawn from her mother’s life. Through palimpsests of voices and images, the artist’s own dance performances, and archival interviews with the princess just before her divorce, Diana, Diana meditates on iconography and celebrity, globalization and colonization, and women’s shared struggles for autonomy across class lines.