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Where the snow-fed Rio del Llano met the edge of the desert
BY
Maria Magnusson

Inspired by Robert Kinmont’s photographic series My Favorite Dirt Roads (1969) In 2019 I visited the geographical location, Pear blossom Highway in California which is near the Antelope Valley (the armpit of California). A place also known as The Socialist Ruins. Here, Job Harriman, a socialist lawyer who ran for Vice President of the United States, Governor of California and Mayor of Los Angeles, founded in 1914 the cooperative colony – Llano del Rio which means plain by the river. The colony flourished for four years between 1914 to 1918. The cooperative Llano del Rio was a pioneer in agriculture with alfalfa, corn and pear cultivation, among others, and has named the highway – Pear blossom Highway. The sound collage is based on Delia Derbyshire’s radio program for the BBC – Inventions for Radio Dreams from 1964, where where people describe how they dream of a specific place and its landscape.

Keywords Experimental, Landscape, Nature, Society, Architecture, Personal
Aspect ratio 1.33:1 (4:3)
Prod. format 16mm
Duration 00:04:56
Language English
Color Color
Sound Stereo
Year 2023
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About the artist

Maria Magnusson

-Maria Magnusson is an artist and filmmaker based in Gothenburg whose work explores the relationship between sound and moving images. She holds a Master’s degree in Photography and a Bachelor’s degree in Art History and Theory from the University of Gothenburg. Working with found footage and archival material, Magnusson combines analogue and digital filmic methods to investigate themes such as memory, dreams, and the unconscious. She has participated in artist residencies in Canada, Mexico, and California, where she explored various analogue photographic and ecological cinematic processes.

Site-specificity and collaboration with the landscape are recurring aspects of her practice, often connected to her upbringing on a farm in Norra Björke. Magnusson’s experimental films have been shown at festivals, galleries, and micro-cinemas, including the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, LA FilmForum, Echo Park Film Center, Alchemy Film Festival, Antimatter Film Festival, Images Festival, and Experiments in Cinema, among others.

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