Cup of Storm

A four-chapter immersive film, Jigna joins dreams, spirits, and memories inspired by Les Guérillères by Monique Witting–a seminal feminist novel in which a lesbian society battles patriarchal order. The film reimagines and gives homage to Witting’s poetry through lucid soundscapes, myths, and movement. The experimental filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist Leah Solomon uses abstraction, oral histories, and material ecologies to create new sonic and visual landscapes. The screening was followed by a live musical performance by Solomon and local pianist, poet, and singer Qur’an Shaheed with bassist and composer Tate Egon Chavez. The performance, Cup of Storm, is a culmination of an original collaborative project between Solomon, Shaheed, and Chavez, building upon the film's score, with improvisational and classical composition, commissioned for REDCAT.