HEN TO PAN

HD video and VFX
6:19 min, 2023

Visuals and Art Direction by Prima Materia
(Daniela Huerta and Cornelia Pierce)

Sound Design and Music by Daniela Huerta
Supported by the Goethe Institute in Berlin

‘Hen to Pan’ was premiered at Experimental Forum, Los Angeles, 2024

’Hen to Pan’ engages with an archaic human mindset. In the piece, a storyteller guides multiple passages of an anonymous body that along with nature is bound to a perpetual, and at times violent rhythm of ritualistic formation and deformation. This body carries an amorphous identity: its limbs are missing and its flesh embraces elementary instincts and forces of inertia. It is a vessel, an ancient archetype that holds in itself the symbols and consciousness of early man. 

’Hen to Pan’ moves within its own cycle, it is an autarchic great round, an ouroboros. Its myth is guided by the spirit of a snake in the pursuit of self-cannibalism, flowing back to itself and ending as a self-fertilized androgynous entity.