The new short film installation ‘130919: A Portrait of Marina Abramović’ by up-and-coming artist Matthu Placek has been accepted into the Sundance Film Festival, taking place on January 16-16, 2014.

Marina Abramovic is best known for her works which explore the body’s potential as a vehicle for spiritual transformation, as well as the physical limitations of the human body. This 3D film installation by Placek contains fragments of Marina Abramovic standing in the middle of a deserted building in Hudson, New York, before its renovation to become the Marina Abramović Institute.

Then the camera pans out and offers the promise of renewal while contemplating Abramovic’s life and work. This is set to an original score based on an ancient Greek song, translated and recorded by Serbian singer Svetlana Spajic and arranged by music producer Thomas Bartlett that recalls the cycle of birth, maturity, decay, and rebirth.

This work is Placek’s debut work in a series of 3D video portraits and it is part of his pursuit to immortalize his subjects’ past, present, and future in a single composition. His short films are shot in one take and don’t contain dialogue, but they do offer rare, uninterrupted moments with artists as they interact with surroundings meaningful to each of them. The 3D cinematography enhances the intimacy of the vignettes, further collapsing the space between the viewer and the subjects’ essential natures.