LINGUA IGNOTA // THAT HE MAY NOT RISE AGAIN
2017 · 15m · USA
Directed by Kristin Hayter
Genres: experimental, musical
Tones: dark, mythic, theatrical
A ritual performance work combining Latin liturgical text with modified biblical passages, featuring sacred choral elements alongside Hayter's contemporary noise composition; the piece explores themes of protection, survival, and gendered violence through a devotional lens.
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The longer of Hayter's two Vimeo performance films, this piece earns its runtime through an escalating liturgical structure that positions it firmly in the tradition of expanded cinema-as-ritual — Deren and Galás are the obvious predecessors, but Hayter's idiom is distinctly contemporary.
Kristin Hayter at nearly fifteen minutes of sustained Latin liturgical noise. Hayter's project is genuinely singular — duration as devotional instrument is true here, not a critic's metaphor.
Kristin Hayter sustains a 14:42 ritual collision of modified Psalm 140 and contemporary noise composition. Duration becomes the devotional instrument — not a film for everyone, but it's doing what it set out to do.