3D video, color, sound; wooden benches painted purple
Camille Henrot’s latest film Saturday (2017) focuses on the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church – a Christian denomination that celebrates the Sabbath and practices baptism by immersion. Shot mostly in 3D, the film combines scenes recorded at SDA Church sites in the United States and Polynesia with sundry images of food, surfing, and medical tests; together, they create the impression of a parallel world of hope and belief. Meanwhile, a series of news-ticker-style texts scroll across the screen, visualizing a sense of information inundation.
