Sally Lawton Movies

Exploring the coming together and separating out of my former self, myself as a mother, and my child during the postpartum period. The work uses...

A meditation on how women traverse their own bodies, through pregnancy and the desire to be pregnant. In documenting corporeal passivity and gestures...

"Poetry is in opposition to the truth of the myth" Laura Riding Jackson, ​ This film is inspired by Laura Riding Jackson’s idea that...

The Red Tide follows a life changing move to Florida. Exploring a new home located near famous earthworks by Robert Smithson, the enormous art...

​A documentation of parades and protests during the first months of Donald Trumps presidential campaign. The speed at which nationalism moves...

A diary of Christmas in Yosemite National Park. Coastal secrets and transcendental filters fill the frame.

An experimental documentary charting the relationship of five Ukrainians and one Ukrainian American to the 2014 revolution and preceding war. The...

"This film is a collaborative installation project with Orleans + Winder (Detroit). It examines Nathaniel Dorsky’s writings on Self-Symbols in...

A speculative fiction about Dadaism where Marcel Duchamp is recast as a female narrator. With texts from Rosalind Krauss, Claude Cajun, Kathy Acker...

The relationship between the decline of industry and the cycles of addiction are examined.

A collage of signs, creditor voicemails, and travelogues. A attempt to vacation at work and work on vacation. ​

Glimpses of Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights (1495) are repainted through a VHS video mixing board.

What affects me most powerfully: mourning in layers – a kind of sclerosis. Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary Inspired by Roland Barthes’...