Betzy Bromberg

Abstract

Following a transformative experience while filming in the catacombs in Paris, Betzy Bromberg radically changed her approach to filmmaking, and in recent years has produced feature-length, 16mm films with accompanying music, by exploring minute spaces within the gardens around her home in Tujunga, California. The most recent of the films, Voluptuous Sleep (2012) and Glide of Transparency (2017), are simultaneously landmarks of cine-abstraction and intimate portraits of familiar spaces—a kind of visual music, accompanied by sound and music by Robert Allaire, Dane Davis, and others, including Bromberg.