UHD video, 5.1 surround sound
Installation dimensions variable
Running time: 43:00
Directed and researched by Dario Robleto
Written by Dario Robleto and Jennifer Roberts
Narrated by Dario Robleto
Production design:
Dario Robleto and S. Ashbrook
Visual effects and editing:
S. Ashbrook and Wylie Earnhart
Original score: S. Ashbrook / beat.imprint
Sound design and editing:
Bill Haddad, S. Ashbrook, and Dario Robleto
Location filming by The Biscuit Factory
Director of photography: Rob Lyall
Field producer: Molly Herman
Until We Are Forged: Hymns for the Elements explores the importance of empathy and care in the methods used by conservators and image scientists at the National Gallery of Art. The video documents their processes—their “tender science”—as they prepare works by 16th and 17th-century artists Joris Hoefnagel and Jan van Kessel for exhibition.
Commissioned by the The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.